The idea was to make something that could sit on the deck and act as a sort of cocktail table. I had a slab of eucalyptus and some white oak and COVID was just beginning to rear its ugly head.
I took the slab and made the largest octagon I could
Then I started playing around with ideas for the base. I knew I had to strengthen the post so I took some cutoffs from the slab
I balanced the top on the base and it dawned on me the feet were probably too short. We also decided at that time the top needed to be higher, after playing around with how the chairs would work.
So I borrowed a boat building technique known as scarphing and set to scarph on some eucalyptus extensions on the white oak feet.