Here is a project I finished today. It is a walnut and maple end table, made for a real, paying customer! 
My brief was a complete carte blanche, apart from the fact it needed a drawer and a shelf. It spent quite a while in the design stage, and was redesigned several times before I thought it was right.
The legs extend trough the table top. I asked the question about expansion issues on the forum, and WiZer suggested that I leave a gap around the legs and make it a feature. I'm glad he did, because I think it worked very well. Thanks WiZeR. :wink:
The hardest part for me was the M&Ts for the rails. Because the legs are curved, the shoulder for the tenon also had to be. This was done with a template and router, but it took quite a while to get it right.
I experimented with a maple drawer pull, but in the end, I decided not to have one at all. So instead, I routed a finger groove in the underside. The drawers run on tandem blumotion runners. The big orange levers are the locking devices.
It is finished with Osmo PolyX, which was recommended by Rob (woodbloke), in another thread. I must say, it is excellent stuff. Highly reccomended.
My brief was a complete carte blanche, apart from the fact it needed a drawer and a shelf. It spent quite a while in the design stage, and was redesigned several times before I thought it was right.
The legs extend trough the table top. I asked the question about expansion issues on the forum, and WiZer suggested that I leave a gap around the legs and make it a feature. I'm glad he did, because I think it worked very well. Thanks WiZeR. :wink:
The hardest part for me was the M&Ts for the rails. Because the legs are curved, the shoulder for the tenon also had to be. This was done with a template and router, but it took quite a while to get it right.
I experimented with a maple drawer pull, but in the end, I decided not to have one at all. So instead, I routed a finger groove in the underside. The drawers run on tandem blumotion runners. The big orange levers are the locking devices.
It is finished with Osmo PolyX, which was recommended by Rob (woodbloke), in another thread. I must say, it is excellent stuff. Highly reccomended.
