So as most of you know from all my previous questions (lol) I’m building a dining room table for my house. I thought I would share my list of tools and materials I need to complete this in hopes it would help people that are on the fence. I got excited about building this that I didn’t even consider what woodworking tools I have and what I needed. First off the slab of white oak I got that was kiln dried and flattened was $950. It’s about 50” wide, 7.5’ long and 2.5” thick. It’s a beautiful slab with some cracks but nothing that couldn’t be handled. That goes into my next point, which is I have to stabilize the cracks with bow ties. And I want to install c channel so I needed a router. And getting a halfway decent plunge router and 3 different bits is not cheap. Then with bow ties you need a good set of chisels, but I don’t even have a fucking mallet for it. Can’t use regular claw hammer so had to buy that too. Then table legs I got some nice black metal u shaped legs. That wasn’t cheap either. I’m Not going to through my entire list since you can just look through it but you get the point. All that stuff added up, along with the cost of the slab is probably approaching the price of table if I bought it from somewhere else (maybe). I do a little bit of woodworking but I’m not building live edge dining room tables for people so now I have all these tools I may or may not use again but that’s where I question if it was worth it or if I should’ve just bought it. Time is another factor. I’m newer to this so this is something that is going to take extraordinarily longer than professionals. I’ll also throw in that I had to drive 2 hours to pick up this slab and it was not easy. I had to unload a 260lb slab into my garage by myself because I felt bad asking anyone for help. Lastly, there is the time I spent trying to learn all the skills necessary to make this a great table. Like pouring epoxy, hand planing, using the router for various things, researching so much trying to figure out how wood moves to prevent it from fucking me. It has been really stressful. But yeah sorry my rant is over. Like I said this post was mainly for the people that are thinking about taking on a big project but haven’t considered the time and price of doing it yourself.   submitted by   /u/Electrical-Juice-915   to   r/BeginnerWoodWorking [link]   [comments]