This is the 2nd half of a build thread for a Sheraton style breakfast table with 2 fold up leaves. Rough dimensions are ~ 30” wide x 50” long x 29” tall. The design is a combination of 2 tables taken from Wallace Nutting’s “Furniture Treasury”).
When I left off, I just finished the tabletop and legs. Next step is to build the apron.Table Legs have a horizontal bead carving elements I want to carry over to the adjacent apron. For the longest, straight apron sections, rather than carve the bead directly onto the apron, and then have to lower the entire apron surface below the level of the carving, it was easier for me to carve the beads on separate stock and then glue the carving to bottom edge of the apron.
Next was cutting the mortise and tenon’s to join the aprons to legs. Typically I remove most of the waste in the mortise on the drill press, but increasingly it seems a little simpler to just lay out and chop the mortises directly, particularly in this mahogany which is nice and soft.