I have one, we use it in the fall when we sit in front of the garage and don’t feel like dealing with the solo stove. It’s on concrete driveway, and we’re probably 4-5 back from it. I’m totally comfortable using it how we do, but I could never imaging actually using one of these in the house on a table! It’s full of boiling alcohol! More on reddit.com

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'Safety' and 'tabletop fire pit' don't really go together. If there's a smell and you don't like it, don't use it indoors. The alcohol itself is no danger, but the smell is due to many partial combustion products whose health effects would be hard to judge across Reddit. Bonus: Dont use methanol. That way lies formaldehyde and great eye irritation. More on reddit.com

Looks amazing for a first project! You’ll have to wait and see what happens to know for sure Glued up tops are generally fastened with slotted hardware though, if screwed solid like this it has the potential to rip itself apart. It will expand mostly along the width of the grain, so if you’d put the screws in slots parallel to the grain of the bottom pieces the heads would slide in the slot as the wood acclimated to different conditions Grain orientation also makes a difference, the boards will cup in the direction that straightens the end grain lines. If you alternate the way the boards cup it’ll theoretically compensate and help the piece stay flat More on reddit.com