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Thanks for the advice. I hadn't even heard of buttons (although having googled them, I've seen the sort of thing before: just didn't know the name). That sounds like a good plan, although I might have a go at cutting individual slots by hand just for the practice. I'll see what I feel like...

For completeness, a few more photos... The table top after having been removed from the clamps: and the underside, which needs a bit of glue scraping off: Here's what the shelf looked like in its clamps: I made a bit of a mistake here. I clamped it in the same way I clamped the table...

At the moment, they're just held with glue in the middle (well, at the moment, they're also held with lots of clamps, but that's beside the point!). I'm not sure what you mean by "pinning them". The videos I watched (which might not have been good ones, of course) showed breadboard ends just...

Over the weekend I started making the two "panels": the table top and the shelf. I figured that the overall size of the table wasn't likely to change and hence those two could be made now, even if the rest of the design changes considerably. I started by cutting the various planks a bit longer...

Thanks for the feedback both - that's really useful. I'd picked the dimensions entirely based on what wood I had available. I bought a hobby pack from British Hardwoods which had a lot of 19 mm material and I also got some 19 × 94 mm and some 43 × 69 mm (not for any good reason, it just seemed...

Today I replaced my plywood vice jaws with new ones made out of some spare hardwood: Open: Having the dog holes (with stainless steel fillers to keep sawdust out) in the jaws should give me some useful alternatives for clamping stuff. I've been doing a lot of planing of wood lately. None...

Yes, it was my plan to rebate the upper edges of the lower rails. I hadn't got as far as thinking about how the rails were going to fit into the legs: I'll have to spend some time thinking about that! Thanks for the advice. Certainly wasn't what I was planning, but not because it's a bad...

Thanks, that's really useful. I'll have a look at breadboard ends & selective gluing. I've updated the model with a 4 mm rail gap (hopefully visible in this pictutre):

Alternative shelf construction (three slats rather than four):

Subject: Thoughts for my first wood project: side table design As I mentioned in my introduction post, I've done odd bits of woodwork in the past, but most of it has involved plywood or MDF and the only "real wood" thing I've made was a pine planter about 13 years ago. I've now managed to...

I hadn't seen those, so thanks for sharing them. Only one will fit my jig at the moment (I made it for my smaller router, which will only take 1/4" or 8mm cutters), but it will hopefully improve the finish, so probably worthwhile.

Today I made a simple jig to allow me to run a router over the surface of a bit of wood as a pseudo planer/thicknesser. It allows the router to travel anywhere on the surface at a fairly consistent height, so if the wood is shimmed stable (held down with double-sided tape) one side can be...

Thanks all, much appreciated!

What sort of oak then? It's a very different colour to the oak that's sitting next to it (or any of the other bits of oak I bought at the same time from Yandles).

I picked up some wood from the 99p bin in Yandles yesterday and couldn't get an answer on what wood it is. Can anyone on here help? I've surrounded it with some known wood to help make the colour a bit clearer. The plank on the left is maple, the offcut on the right is oak, the bit at the...

Hello again TYA. I'll be down your neck of the woods later this week. After not having left our little Cotswold town since March, we decided we could finally justify a trip out so we're going to try for Fish & Chips in Lyme Regis on Friday (yes, we picked the day with the worst weather...

I think it's probably my natural instinct, but I'm trying my best to fight it and have been experimenting with (badly so far) hand cutting a few joints for practice. I'm hoping I reach a happy medium where I use power tools where it would be daft not to (cutting long straight cuts in plywood) or...

I seem to spend a lot of time rearranging things to get a little more in. I can't wait to move somewhere with more space, although I'm sure I'll fill it quickly!

The planes have been acquired over many years. Some were inherited, some came from charity or junk shops. One of them (the small-ish one near the top on the left) is missing the blade, but the others are all complete and sharp. I've been enjoying reading about some of the options and I think...

I've been lurking on this forum for a while now and as I'm starting to try to get into woodworking, I thought I ought to bite the bullet and introduce myself to the forum. My name is Al and I'm a wannabe woodworker. My working life involves designing electronics so is mostly spent staring at...