This past week has been very productive and yet very unproductive at the same time. I finished making my mold and did my concrete pour. The pour went well however because the wood plugs expanded while the concrete shrank it made getting the plus out of the mold near impossible. While attempting to take the plus out I actually hammered the base of the T joint a weak joint to begin with) right off. Now the table doesn’t stand on a the center T. (a decision that was made soley on visual preferences and clearly caused alot of problems from the get go) In addition, another pour cannot be done directly on that joint to repair it because that joint is now forever weak. So back to the drawing board. I have been thinking about incorporating steel into the legs to take care of the structural issues that the concrete inherently creates and I can learn how to weld! Here are soem process images of the pour/and fail.
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