Ash Table Build #1: Milling & Legs
My wife, who teaches music/chorus at a high school, recently e-mailed me a picture of an empty space, with the caption “I need a table here.” The final dimensions were to be 72” long, 22” deep, and 36” high. She would also like a shelf, about 12” off the floor, that is only the back-half of the table depth. She would use this table for organizing sheet music, grading papers, etc. I was also given the direction to spend as little as possible, including lumber expenditures. I had about 40 board feet of rough 5/4 and 4/4 ash that hadn’t been assigned to anything, and about 8 board feet of cherry left. I figured I could make do with this. The ...
