Finish by wiping down the table with a tack cloth so it’s free of dust, then sand the surface again, this time with your 120-grit, to polish the wood. Step 4: Apply paint or stain—or nothing ...

Hubert’s trick was to build the table entirely from 3-ply .8mm birch aircraft plywood–the same Canadian-sourced wood used in the world’s largest all-timber plane, the Hughes H-4 Hercules.