Hello to all the folks here on the forum. I haven't put up a completed piece of furniture in a while so I thought I woudl put this up for viewing. Not to get off-track but I am building a steel string guitar and that is taking most of my time. Unlike the table below, I have never built a guitar before and it is a steep learning curve to say it out loud.
Here is a reproduction of a table I saw at the CW cabinet shop. After a year or 2 of turning this around in my head, I got motivated to build it. The top is not a veneer job, it is solid crotch walnut
As you can see in the photo, the legs are square with a chamfered angle cut on the inside of the legs to make it look lighter. To apply the beads on the leg outer surface I just took some thick sheet metal and filed the bead size that appealed to me-then the scraping begins. The lock and the escutcheon plate are from Ball and Ball brass foundry. Looking at the drawers you might wonder .. Why so shallow? Well they work for a movable chess table and I like walnut as many here on the forum know already. For the builders: the secondary wood that I used was some old yellow pine with tons of resin you could smell as you were planing it - the wood was a joy to use on the project. The top is 23" inches wide and 30 plus inches long. This surface was planed down to a heavy 5/8" starting with a toothing plane and then finalized with a scraper blade from Stewart-MacDonald guitar making tools. A very nicely made thick scraper,
Some of the same wood I used to build the hanging corner cabinet in the Spring of this year.
Here is a reproduction of a table I saw at the CW cabinet shop. After a year or 2 of turning this around in my head, I got motivated to build it. The top is not a veneer job, it is solid crotch walnut
As you can see in the photo, the legs are square with a chamfered angle cut on the inside of the legs to make it look lighter. To apply the beads on the leg outer surface I just took some thick sheet metal and filed the bead size that appealed to me-then the scraping begins. The lock and the escutcheon plate are from Ball and Ball brass foundry. Looking at the drawers you might wonder .. Why so shallow? Well they work for a movable chess table and I like walnut as many here on the forum know already. For the builders: the secondary wood that I used was some old yellow pine with tons of resin you could smell as you were planing it - the wood was a joy to use on the project. The top is 23" inches wide and 30 plus inches long. This surface was planed down to a heavy 5/8" starting with a toothing plane and then finalized with a scraper blade from Stewart-MacDonald guitar making tools. A very nicely made thick scraper,
Some of the same wood I used to build the hanging corner cabinet in the Spring of this year.
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