Im not a carpenter but I have made myself a "Drafting/Drawing Table"

in doitmyself •  7 years ago  (edited)

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Good day steemit friends! Its been 3 days since my last post here, im quite busy on my warehouse, on my steemit garden and some house errands. I also busy working on my diy project during on my free time, i'd been making a drafting/drawing table for myself.

Whenever i draw something, im just using our dining table or the coffee table which is not really comfortable for me, so for my personal use, i decided to look for a drawing table in the internet.

These drawing tables are really great to work at, cost $200, but i've got little money in my pocket.

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Then, i've got the idea to make one for me, why not? So, i started to buy things that i needed and look around inside my warehouse if there is an extra woods.

For my start, i bought two 1x2x10 (P125), 1" nail (P15), one sandpaper (P20), good thing i found this piece of plywood at my warehouse.

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I been using my little stickers as a replacement on paint, i cut it from these un-used promo stickers.

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Then, i started to cover the table (plywood) from the side and way to the top.

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Afterwhich, i also cover the bottom part of the table, but in different design.

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Then, i construct a little drawer where i will put all my drawing materials, like my coloured pencils, signpens and etc.

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Cover the drawer wood frame with my colored small stickers.

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Now constructing the feet or post for my table, i made two rectangle shapes here. The plywood is for the back support.

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I have placed here the drawer slide, as seen on the pictures, attached each end on the front upper portion of the feet, and the other end attached to the plywood.

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Steemit friends lets paused for a while on my work, and lets all have lunch for now.

Eating together with my co-office Mam Joy @ligayay, our visitors and products agent Sir Joel, Mam Dang and Mam Josie. My wife is on my left side, she prepared sauted munggo beans with bittermelon fruit and shoots, lumpiang shanghai and fried milkfish.

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Back to my project after an hour.

I bought additional three pieces of wood 1x2x10, for the inner frame of the table feet, to make it more stronger. I used here a wood glue to attach the inner frame to the outer frame.

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Then, after the glue dried up, i fixed it with a 2" nail on each 4 sides.

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Attached two small hinges on top front and to the table, to make a little slanting of the flatform for drawing purposes.

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Made this wood stand to support the slanting of the table top, attached it with one small hinge.

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I cut here 4 pcs of small rubber for my drawing table stand. Attached it with 2" screw.

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*Its time to put orange stickers all over the table's feet and to the back support.

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I put a gif on how i put the sticker on each corner of the feet frame by using my plastic ruler.

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Finally finished it!

Bottom view.
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Back view.
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Back view with table stand.
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Front view.
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Front view with drawer pull out and table stand.
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My tools i have used to make this drawing table, hammer, chissel, screw driver, fliers, nails and screws, hinges, scissor, cutter, ruler, steel saw and wood glue.

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I have used 582 pieces of colored stickers for the top table and drawer, and 581 pieces of orange stickers for the table's feet and back support. Total of my expenses is P750, I spent money for the 5 pcs of 1x2x10 cost P125 each, sand paper-P20, 1" nail 1/4-P15, 2" nail 1/4 P15, 4 pcs of hinges-P15 each.

Thank you steemit family and friends for visiting my post, and hopefully you enjoyed your time seeing the making of my drawing table, i really put time and effort to do it, even though im not a carpenter, i push myself hard with patience and strived to finished it.

See you on my next post steemit family and friends! Thank you again!

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Very creative. The table looks good :-) resteemed

Thank you very much @fathin-shihab 😊.

Hello friends Your warehouse is doing fine work. The table is very well made. And there is a lot of money.

Thank you @ahlawat for your nice comment, i really made the drawing table to be strong enough to withstand my arms/body weight.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

The table is beautiful. But you have all the work in all rounder.

Yup my friend, im the warehouseman, the gardener, the carpenter, the delivery man, logistic, the security guard, and many more 😊.

You are also a true friend. Which has the greatest potential. a great friend. good luck

Ganda po ng pagkakagawa. :)

Many thanks @zararina 😊. I also visited your page, i hope we can grow here 😊.