Project Information
This Table/Desk was one that I had the extreme pleasure of helping a young friend of mine make who wanted to learn more about woodworking. He wasn't the only one who learned on this project. It required more jigs than I can remember needing to make for a project.
It was a joint challenge with half-blind dovetails on the legs, sliding dovetails on the braces, compound angle mortise and tenon joints on the stretchers, and bisecting angle joints on the bottom of the legs.
Cutting the joints into the butcher block table top was nerve wrecking because there was no room for error and no turning back once we started.
Finish was Sherwin Williams PreCat Lacquer. Had a beautiful day outside to spray it. Kind of felt like a shade tree carpenter.
Here is more detail about the build:
I used patterns for each of the leg types and the stretcher, using a pattern bit to finish each to be the same
Several jigs were used in the process…one to cut the dovetail in the brace leg
One to cut the angles on the bottoms of the legs (no comments from the safety police please, some of the clamps were removed for photo taking)
One to rout the sliding dovetails and another one to rout the half-blind dovetails
Here is a shot of the leg assemblies prior to glue-up note that I used biscuits to help join the leg and brace leg
Here's the glue-up in process (please ignore the messy shop in the background it isn't always like this usually it's much worse)
Here it is installed:
It was a joint challenge with half-blind dovetails on the legs, sliding dovetails on the braces, compound angle mortise and tenon joints on the stretchers, and bisecting angle joints on the bottom of the legs.
Cutting the joints into the butcher block table top was nerve wrecking because there was no room for error and no turning back once we started.
Finish was Sherwin Williams PreCat Lacquer. Had a beautiful day outside to spray it. Kind of felt like a shade tree carpenter.
Here is more detail about the build:
I used patterns for each of the leg types and the stretcher, using a pattern bit to finish each to be the same
Several jigs were used in the process…one to cut the dovetail in the brace leg
One to cut the angles on the bottoms of the legs (no comments from the safety police please, some of the clamps were removed for photo taking)
One to rout the sliding dovetails and another one to rout the half-blind dovetails
Here is a shot of the leg assemblies prior to glue-up note that I used biscuits to help join the leg and brace leg
Here's the glue-up in process (please ignore the messy shop in the background it isn't always like this usually it's much worse)
Here it is installed: