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Julian's side hobby: making practical and stylish side tables from wooden port boxes (perfect to hold yours and your port chum's port glass).

Side hobby would be hugely over-stating it. More a refusal to discard good Port tat.

These are only the third and fourth such tables I’ve made. Done with nothing more complicated than wood glue and some weight (usually mine). Alas one of the Dow magnum boxes was distorted, such that it couldn’t be held tight to its neighbour with glue. So that misfit has become a ‘feature’, that adds quirkiness.

Boxes open at sides (left table) provide extra surfaces in which things can be lost.

As I had seven magnum boxes, most efficient usage was that one table have magnum legs, and the other have a magnum top. YMMV.

You didn't remove the rope handles. They are now easier to carry. Well done.

Not exactly furniture, but my mum has repurposed the case from a port gift I gave my dad some years ago (the bottles are stored somewhere cool and dark). Apparently this is a useful way of preventing local ruffian mice from chewing through various gardening paraphernalia.