Sawbench Finished

Now I have a place to put my D-8 thumbhole ripsaw, sweet. Aside from that it's gappy, bust solid, and level. 

Coffee Table Dry Fit

Dry fit, it's taken a while, but I'm finally here. I have to flatten the top, make shrink buttons, and chamfer the edges. Then I can glue an finish. We've opted out of a drawer due to certain clutter tendencies my mom has. That certainly simplifies everything for me.   

Coffee Table Part 4 Drawer parts and Top

Sitting on the mocked up frame are the rest of the pieces needed for the project. Three boards to be glued for the top, the bottom long rails, front long apron, and a piece of maple on top for the drawer box.


Here are halves of the drawer bottom, 1/4" poplar being rub glued with hide. I heard about this technique from the Logan Cabinet Shop in an episode on the Tea Table, and I really like it.

Coffee Table part 3.5

Because I only did a bit of work today before I got hired in the lumber department of HomeDepot, and ran over there to pickup some maple and poplar for the drawer, pine for a pair of shelves my grandmom wants and the Aug issue of Popular Woodworking featuring a sweet Roubo... oh an sign the paperwork I need to actually work there...


Here is the coffee table mocked up, I say that because the long bottom stretchers under the shelf aren't there, and I still have some fitting and front apron/drawer to do, before I can say that it's a done frame.

My free time will take a dive now that I'm employed, but a budding furniture-design/builder-wanna-be-shop-teacher has to earn his money somewhere.

Coffee Table Part Three

I started today with parts that I cut a few days ago, these are the mortises for the apron. I'll get a better picture that shows how the parts fit together inside of them in the next post.


The end rail, the end of the tenon is mitered to fit against the other tenon inside the mortise.


Okay, I cheated, I'm using a DeWalt and a sweet little forstner bit to rough out the mortises, I was afraid of the screw biting through the other side. I like this method of mortising over all chiseling, it's much faster, and doubly so with a powered drill.


My lovely girlfriend, who was in the shop coppersmithing some jewelry, stopped to take this photo of my and the finished end. It's really hot here, so I'll be working less frequently than I usually try to.