Comments

1. 
   pwfiol | Apr 28, 2009 09:26pm | #1

   the box looks great. the casters look cheap & tacky.

2. 
   JayBeeH | Apr 28, 2009 10:07pm | #2

   I was going to comment on the casters but 1st comment covered it.

3. 
   MBerger | Apr 28, 2009 11:08pm | #3

   If that's a solid lamination I presume you need the casters to move it around. Perhaps they could be recessed or replaced with something from a catalog? Then again, if you lived in a Brooklyn loft they'd fit right in!

4. 
   pwfiol | Apr 29, 2009 03:03am | #4

   suggestion,,, if you don't really need to move it a lot get rid of the casters and make some nice feet for it that match the rest of the box. If you do need to move it a lot, set the casters back in and again build some feet to hide them behind. Just make the feet shorter so they don't touch the floor but look like they do. It will then look like it is setting on the legs, but you can still move it.

5. 
   yosurijoe | Apr 29, 2009 12:47pm | #5

   You could hide those casters by adding a skirt around the bottom edge of the table. Make it just wide enough so the table looks like it's floating. I've done that with a couple of large pieces that needed to be moved easily and it looks really nice. People won't know that there's casters on it until they push on it. Other then that, nice piece.

6. 
   marfue | Apr 29, 2009 12:49pm | #6

   Looks great! is that solid?

7. 
   choppertoo | Apr 29, 2009 05:16pm | #7

   Thanks for the comments.

   As far as the polyurethane casters are concerned I purposely chose them to give the table a contemporary/modern look. I’ve been asked to make another one for someone who saw it in my office. They like the caster look as well but I will suggest to them that I make theirs to have a floating look as suggested by yosurijoe as I like the sound of that as well.
   The top 4 layers and the bottom 4 layers are solid. For the middle layers the outside boards are full sized but the ends are only 4 inches long. Making it very solid but not overly heavy.

8. 
   seanfromsc | Apr 30, 2009 03:10am | #8

   I like it just the way you created it.. Really cool piece..

9. 
   ianmilliss | Jun 03, 2009 11:35am | #9

   Ignore all the comments above - amateur woodworkers sadly have a tendency to nostalgic tastes, at best, and very bad taste at worst. Just look at all the reproduction and pastiche stylesthat woodwork magazines are filled with. I think the castors look perfectly okay, they suit the minimal industrial style of the whole piece and it makes good use of the type of small offcuts we all have heaps of. I like it.

10. 
    Incredible | Jan 08, 2010 02:27am | #10

    This is a cool piece. Thank you for sharing it.The casters are fine. This is your piece the way you made it. Express yourself! The cheap and tacky comment,well that is a bit cheap and tacky too.

11. 
    gaika | Nov 01, 2010 07:29pm | #11

    looks good and i also like the casters the way they are, makes the table look playful!