The Making of a Farmhouse Coffee Table with a Lifting Top

My lovely sister requested a matching coffee table to go along with the media center I built for her in my last video. I built the structure of this table using only wood joinery--the only metal fasteners are the lifting hardware. The top is made of a locally felled and milled sycamore, a relatively soft hardwood that smells amazing when you cut it. The legs are oak scraps, most of the apron is trim from our house that we recently replaced. The only "new" piece is the bottom shelf, which I made from the remnants of the pieces of the media center project.

Small editing error at the end cut me off slightly, but the coasters are made from offcuts of the sycamore top