From Teacher To Tables: How I Accidentally Became A Furniture Maker

This isn’t just the story of building a dining table. It’s the story of how I went from teaching 5th grade for 11 years… to accidentally becoming a custom furniture maker. A few years ago, I never would have guessed I’d be running a woodworking business, filming YouTube videos, or spending my evenings building furniture in a two-car garage. But looking back, I realize I may not have stopped teaching after all—I just traded one classroom for another. As this dining table comes together from rough lumber to a finished piece of furniture, I share the journey that brought me here, the lessons I’ve learned along the way, and why I still believe the best way to learn almost anything is simply to start. Thanks for watching and for being part of the journey. If you enjoy videos that combine woodworking, storytelling, and learning, I’d love to have you along for the ride. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📐 DINING TABLE PDF PLANS I’m currently finishing up the PDF plans for this table! As soon as they’re ready, I’ll add the link here. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📐 ULTIMATE PLANER SLED PDF PLANS https://craftsman18.gumroad.com/l/uxjiga ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ TOOLS USED IN THIS VIDEO PEC Combination Square: https://amzn.to/4xQqB6J Woodpeckers Exact-90 Miter Gauge: https://amzn.to/4eB9Y7F DeWalt 735X Planer: https://amzn.to/4eV4UtJ DowelMax Joinery System: https://www.dowelmax.com/product/clas... WoodRiver Low Angle Block Plane: https://amzn.to/4aqTjB8 MicroJig MatchFit Clamps: https://amzn.to/44GxGJC JessEm Stock Guides: https://amzn.to/4asa6Uw Milescraft Grabber Plus: https://amzn.to/4gN88BW Titebond Wood Glue: https://amzn.to/4v1tqiA WEN Dust Collector: https://amzn.to/4p2Va5m Makita Track Saw: https://amzn.to/3RaskDt WEN Track Saw Tracks: https://amzn.to/4wc947j WEN Track Saw Clamps: https://amzn.to/4vKhxz6 CMT Rip Blade: https://amzn.to/4y1w1fw CMT Crosscut Blade: https://amzn.to/4eDiJ14 Bosch 5” Random Orbit Sander: https://amzn.to/44Gys9u Rubio Monocoat Finish: https://amzn.to/4eOiwGV ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ► SHOP MY ENTIRE WOODSHOP TOOL LIST https://docs.google.com/document/d/12... These are the exact tools I use in my shop every day—all in one easy list! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. If you choose to use my links, it helps support the channel at no extra cost to you. Thank you for supporting the channel! #Woodworking #FurnitureMaking #CustomFurniture