Sofa Table +

Looks good Steve!

Are the legs splayed out at the bottom? (first picture says yes, second says no)

The legs are splayed out and tapered. Getting all the angles right for the mortise and tenons was a mind bender.

-- Steve, California

nice table i like the look of floating tops.

-- working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.

That top sure looks like it has some really nice character. Wish there was a better picture of it.
Nice job anyway.

-- "Fine Woodworking" is the name given to a project that takes 3 times longer than normal to finish because you used hand tools instead of power tools. ----Mike, Waukesha, WI

Great work, Steve!

-- Paul Mayer, http://youtube.com/c/toolmetrix

Added another pic of the top. Phone photography class needed :)

-- Steve, California

Added another pic of the top. Phone photography class needed :)

- SawdustSteve

thats better.get an slr to take real pic’s, phones suck,there made to make calls not real photography.if you look at my first projects the pic’s sucked and got few comments.

-- working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.

That’s really nice.

That is really well done!

-- Petey

yes the floating top, the more i see of these, the more i like them, its on the list to build once shop is complete, hope to have roof on it by mid next week, coming up 1k of wood shop love

rj in az

-- Living the dream

That looks outstanding. Nice design and great joinery.

-- Galootish log blog, http://www.timberframe-tools.com

Sweet…another +1 for floating tops! Really like the through mortises and that amazing cherry figure in the top. Bottom 60’s modern shelf goes great with the whole piece. Normally I wouldn’t use exposed screw heads in a piece, but they really work here…are they brass?

-- Live to putter...putter to live!

Looks great!

-- Todd

Very nice. The lines sort or remind me of the Cushman line from the sixties, but they worked in maple.

-- Puddy and paint make me what a carpenter I aint.

I don’t like to use screws, but in this case decided to so I could mount the floating top brackets. The ends already had a tenon running through the leg, so that option was out and I wanted a clean line across the front.

The screws are simply GRK Cabinet screws, so they have some kind of treatment, but wouldn’t call them brass – they look like tarnished brass, and I thought that would look nice here. Those are my go to screws for about everything now that is exposed.

I was calling that bottom shelf a surf board at the time I made it :)

-- Steve, California