Occulto
In its previous life, this table top was a furnace cover in a small bungalow built in 1923. After narrowly escaping a trip to the scapyard where it would surely have been smelted and fashioned into another furnace cover, I stripped, sealed, and buffed it uncovering the hidden beauty of this seemingly worthless object.
Now that I had a handsome table top on my hands, I felt obligated to put together a base for it, for a tabletop without a base is like a horse with no legs, or mabye a bike with no wheels. In any case, I was able to rustle up some scrap heart pine flooring for the horizontal supports, and aluminum angles leftover from a shelving unit I built for the legs.
The piece completed I decided to test it with an actual mug of coffee. Unfortunately I had no coffee, or mugs for that matter, so I decided to improvise and use a bottle of cold beer. The table performed very well but, full disclosure here, it has yet to be tested with real coffee.
