Walt Caza
05-19-2008, 11:18 AM
Good Day to the Creek,
I had a bit of room at the end of my couch, so I whipped up an Arts & Crafts kinda end table.
It is held together with 40 traditional mortise and tenons.
I hand tuned each so that they would slip in with just a light tap, and not fall out if inverted.
I had been wanting to try 3pc legs as an experiment.
I had planned for 5 slats, but my stock allowed for 6 out. I was meaning
to use the best 5, but had a change of heart and played all 6.
I wanted to go with a shelf sunken on all 4 sides, which I liked in my last
posted project. The shelf floats on cleats, which I may trim in wet summer,
before screwing down into predrilled slotted holes to allow movement.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=82097
Each pair of upper and lower stretchers is grain matched by taking neighbours from the same board.
Each spindle gallery is also from one board, so the rays match.
When I topcoated the top, I found ugly pigtail swirls from the ROsander.
Fearing it would bother me forever, I hand scraped top and shelf and
refinshed them by hand. Much better...no shortcuts to the good stuff.(shucks)
I blended up a redder oil stain than my usual, with poly on top for a durable living surface.
From rough oak, I spent 2 weekends dressing and building, and 2 more weekends into finishing.(and refinishing uggh!)
I know it's built like a brick out-house, maybe it won't appeal to all, but that's what I was going for...
I am only a self-taught weekend warrior in it for the laughs anyway!
take it easy,
Walt
:)
pics are:
parts minus panels
forty m & t
six matched slats
cutout as cawl
end in clamps *more pics to follow*
I had a bit of room at the end of my couch, so I whipped up an Arts & Crafts kinda end table.
It is held together with 40 traditional mortise and tenons.
I hand tuned each so that they would slip in with just a light tap, and not fall out if inverted.
I had been wanting to try 3pc legs as an experiment.
I had planned for 5 slats, but my stock allowed for 6 out. I was meaning
to use the best 5, but had a change of heart and played all 6.
I wanted to go with a shelf sunken on all 4 sides, which I liked in my last
posted project. The shelf floats on cleats, which I may trim in wet summer,
before screwing down into predrilled slotted holes to allow movement.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=82097
Each pair of upper and lower stretchers is grain matched by taking neighbours from the same board.
Each spindle gallery is also from one board, so the rays match.
When I topcoated the top, I found ugly pigtail swirls from the ROsander.
Fearing it would bother me forever, I hand scraped top and shelf and
refinshed them by hand. Much better...no shortcuts to the good stuff.(shucks)
I blended up a redder oil stain than my usual, with poly on top for a durable living surface.
From rough oak, I spent 2 weekends dressing and building, and 2 more weekends into finishing.(and refinishing uggh!)
I know it's built like a brick out-house, maybe it won't appeal to all, but that's what I was going for...
I am only a self-taught weekend warrior in it for the laughs anyway!
take it easy,
Walt
:)
pics are:
parts minus panels
forty m & t
six matched slats
cutout as cawl
end in clamps *more pics to follow*