Some time ago LOML requested a console table made to fit against a curved brick wall in our family room.
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Been working on it for some time now. I’ll post the build for anyone interested. We decided on a similar design to that of Derek Cohen’s sofa table, complete with drawers extending out the sides. In this case, though, it needed to be concave on the brick wall side, so a bit of re-engineering of Derek’s design was needed...but followed the same basic principals.
The bulk of the table will be cherry. I picked up a few hundred board feet from a fellow SMC member down in Ohio that was getting out the hobby due to health reasons.
Like Derek, instead of using solid cherry for the front and back “aprons”, I made then from pine...to be later skinned with cherry.
I started with a load of radiata pine from the orange big box and proceeded to glue up what would become the front and back “aprons”.
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They needed to be a bit over 5” thick to accomodate the curves. After the glue dried, I chiseled off the dried glue with my trusty “glue chisel”, and then proceeded to plane them flat and square.
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I made templates of the front and back (scribed from the brick wall) and traced them onto the two pine pieces.
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To be continued....