Coffee table - and a lesson learned

[Nelsun]

Looks great Zed. Right up my street. I'm not jealous if you have that amount of wood going to your burn pile. Nope. Not one bit.

 

[Eric The Viking]

It's really nice, love the contrasts and the "simple" housing joint (bet it wasn't really!).

E.

 

[Zeddedhed]

Thanks for all the kind comments guys - it means a lot considering the incredible talent present on this forum.

Nelsun - it's not that I burn wood gratuitously you understand. I always seem to end up with offcuts that are too small to store on the rack and too big to fit in the woodburner. I hate throwing wood away (ask Oli, my apprentice - he spends countless hours re-organising the "it'll come in handy one day" pile) so when this order came through I adjusted the proportions by no more than a few mm here and there and was able to use up 8 bits of 150 x 485 TulipWood left over from doing some custom door linings.

Eric - as for the housing joint it was actually one of the few times when I eschewed power and went all unplugged!! All done with Stanley No 45 and finished with Record 71 router plane. Very satisfying indeed.

 

[JonnyW]

Lovely unit and really interesting post/replies/photos.

Really inspirational reading posts like this one.

Well done (and nice planes by the way).

Jonny