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After a longer time than I would have thought possible I've finally finished this pair of Greene and Greene-style end tables in walnut with ebony pegs and splines. The wood was a gift from a friend, and is quite delightful. The design was modified from a nightstand in Darrell Peart's book and uses a lot of the details he describes.
Construction is all pretty traditional, the curved parts were all done by template routing. It was my first design project in Sketchup.
Finish is Waterlox topped with a paste wax. Because I didn't want the color to fade to a light brown I used a mix of transtint dyes to color the wood. That was too much of an adventure! Despite saving the cutoffs, sanding and finishing in exactly the same way, the actual tables came out way darker than my samples. I then stripped and refinished the table washing them extensively with dye reducer to pull out as much of the extra dye as I could. The end result seems pretty nice, but way too much work.
Bedsheets make terrible backdrops for photography.