I enjoy woodworking, particularly with a simple set of hand tools. Woodworking is a fine medium for me to get close to the final truth, Tao.
We don't have a coffee table for almost three years. Before that, we had a crappy coffee table that I recycled from a trash dump site in Columbus OHIO when I was still a graduate student. We kept using the table until it physically broke down.
So, I made one to show my sons how we human-beings can design and create things out from raw materials, and make usefulness out from uselessness. They participated from the beginning of plotting to the end of assembly. I hope they can remember that we can be creative--if there is none available, then we roll up our sleeves to make one. It is a floating-top, knocked-down furniture. I sawed out all of these strips with a pull saw from a big piece of white-wood. It is too cold to do finishing to the table. I will wait until next Spring.
The gap is too large. Still a room for improvement.
