Alf
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Tsk, my rate of project completion is so slow this is the first time I've started a completed project thread on this board... 
Anyway, it's my folks' Golden Wedding Anniversary a week on Friday, and I decided I wanted to make them a pair of somethings to mark the occasion. After a bit of consultation side tables were decided on. Slightly smaller than the "usual" design, no drawer, in Cherry to blend with the existing woodwork in the living room. A (bad) plan of sorts here. Roughly 12.5" square and 27" high. I started them towards the end of April and got them finished more or less to my satisfaction today. All sorts of WIP pics and info can be found here. 'Pologies to Blog readers who've seen it all before. A few pics of the finished tables, which they haven't seen :
The pair
One alone to get a better idea of the proportion and such
Close up of the side bead (hand worked). All surfaces, inside and out, hand planed and finished with wiped-on blonde de-waxed shellac
The tops were glued up in one and then seperated to get the figure going across the two tables; seemed appropriate for a wedding anniversary present somehow.
Sixpenny tables because each one has a 1955 sixpence let in on the underside. And you can see why I'm a woodworker and not a calligrapher...
No, they're not particularly remarkable, and I took an inordinately long time making them considering their size. There's a quote somewhere, which I can't find of course, along the lines of "build as if you have forever, but as if it is the last thing you'll ever make", which is what I tried to do. So they're made with the care befitting the recipients; but more to the point, by having that thought in the back of my mind all the time, I didn't make any mistakes! :shock: :lol:
Cheers, Alf
Anyway, it's my folks' Golden Wedding Anniversary a week on Friday, and I decided I wanted to make them a pair of somethings to mark the occasion. After a bit of consultation side tables were decided on. Slightly smaller than the "usual" design, no drawer, in Cherry to blend with the existing woodwork in the living room. A (bad) plan of sorts here. Roughly 12.5" square and 27" high. I started them towards the end of April and got them finished more or less to my satisfaction today. All sorts of WIP pics and info can be found here. 'Pologies to Blog readers who've seen it all before. A few pics of the finished tables, which they haven't seen
:
The pair
One alone to get a better idea of the proportion and such
Close up of the side bead (hand worked). All surfaces, inside and out, hand planed and finished with wiped-on blonde de-waxed shellac
The tops were glued up in one and then seperated to get the figure going across the two tables; seemed appropriate for a wedding anniversary present somehow.
Sixpenny tables because each one has a 1955 sixpence let in on the underside. And you can see why I'm a woodworker and not a calligrapher...
No, they're not particularly remarkable, and I took an inordinately long time making them considering their size.
There's a quote somewhere, which I can't find of course, along the lines of "build as if you have forever, but as if it is the last thing you'll ever make", which is what I tried to do. So they're made with the care befitting the recipients; but more to the point, by having that thought in the back of my mind all the time, I didn't make any mistakes! :shock: :lol: Cheers, Alf
