Building a coffee table - where can I get materials from?

Check out the yellow pages for your local area and see what carpentry places exist there. I built a desk a few years back and it cost me literally £25 in materials which they even cut to size for me there and then lol.
 
Aye reclamation yards, proper woodyards and carpenters (furniture, not house builders/maintenance guys).

There used to be a place near my uncle's in Devon that was awesome if you were into woodworking, they were a proper wood yard (of all types), and sold all the tools for turning etc.
They stocked everything from huge oak beams, and mahogany etc for tables/reconstruction work, to clock blanks.

My dad picked up loads of offcuts that had minor defects or had not come out of the machines quite right and weren't worth them redoing, cheap - somewhere in the garage we've got for example a slab of oak that would be great for a small coffee table, and dozens of bits that would be nice turned or made into plaques etc.
 
Not being sarcastic but..

A tree?

Iv made a table from a tree and also 4 benches round the bbq in the back garden :)

the table could easy be indoor worthy if i put more time into it, infact it looks pretty decent even outside
 
I looked at making a table like that but in the end it worked out cheaper just buying it. Built to a better standard then i could do too. :-)
Got it from an independant furniture store.
Wood can be bought from lots of place. Antique centres or reclaimers seemed about the cheapest when I looked.
 
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