Daughter's new table

My daughter requested a new dining room table and buffet, to match her newly renovated kitchen & dining room. The table to be “weathered gray” on top with painted legs, the paint to match her walls.

The table is silver maple, as will be the buffet when I get to it as my next project. The color on the table top is by Weather Wash, a water based gray wood dye, and the top coat is Weather Wash water based varnish. Both were easy to apply and gave good results. The dye didn’t hide the wood grain, and the satin varnish provided a nice top coat with no glair.

The apron construction is mortise and tenon, with cherry pegs to secure the assembly. I made the pegs from cherry cut-offs I had, band sawn into quarter inch rods, then sharpened and chucked in to a hand drill and run through a fender washer. This actually worked very well with the fender washer secured to a scrap 2X4, with the burr from the punch facing up, to allow cutting the pegs round. The same pegs are used to fasten the breadboard ends, and traditional wooden clips or “buttons” to hold the top while allowing seasonal wood movement.

Thanks for viewing.

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