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Here are three tables I made for a Christmas present. The tables are made primarily using maple, with cherry for the feet and splines.
The construction is mortise and loose tenon. I started off with the plan to make integral tenons, but when I cut the aprons too short, had no choice but to go with loose ones! This was my first time using them, and I really like them.
The cherry feet are attached to the maple legs with a dowel, off-center to allow the taper of the legs.
The top frame is 6/4 maple, mitered, and reinfornced with cherry splines. I simply glued it to the apron and leg assembly.
I used some slate tiles I bought as flooring tiles for the tops. There is a 1/8 piece of hardboard spray painted black screwed into a rabbet in the frame, and the tiles are placed on top of that.
The finish is three coats of a tung oil finish (I think its an oil and varnish blend) rubbed out with 0000 steel wool between each coat.
The design is my own, heavily influenced by a hall table David Marks made with a patinaed copper top.
Thanks for looking!
The construction is mortise and loose tenon. I started off with the plan to make integral tenons, but when I cut the aprons too short, had no choice but to go with loose ones! This was my first time using them, and I really like them.
The cherry feet are attached to the maple legs with a dowel, off-center to allow the taper of the legs.
The top frame is 6/4 maple, mitered, and reinfornced with cherry splines. I simply glued it to the apron and leg assembly.
I used some slate tiles I bought as flooring tiles for the tops. There is a 1/8 piece of hardboard spray painted black screwed into a rabbet in the frame, and the tiles are placed on top of that.
The finish is three coats of a tung oil finish (I think its an oil and varnish blend) rubbed out with 0000 steel wool between each coat.
The design is my own, heavily influenced by a hall table David Marks made with a patinaed copper top.
Thanks for looking!
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