re: Getting Started Building Furniture

I’m a decent carpenter with dimensional lumber but I couldn’t make a join to save my life. A coffee table is a good place to start

I made a coffee table in the bed of my truck 15 years ago using barn wood plank lumber and some oak 3x3s I got at the general store in downtown Covington

It looks pretty damn good and gets heavy use. So try something like that first, where the shape of the wood you are using determines the geometry of the piece