Coffee Table - Cherry and Walnut

fixit · Post by **fixit** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:38 pm

Here's a picture of the coffee table I recently delivered to a customer. He supplied the rough cut lumber cut from trees harvested from his father's land in Tennessee. The majority of the work was done using the Shopsmith (all jointing/planing, table saw work, cutting mortises, tenons, and rabbets).

I'm now finishing up the two matching end tables to complete the set.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:56 am

Definitely work to be proud of. Beautiful!

scottss · Post by **scottss** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:19 am

Nice job Leonard, I am curious how did you make the mortise and tenons and the taper cut on the legs. I just finished a sofa table and other than size it has some of the same features. Again nice work keep it up

Ed in Tampa · Post by **Ed in Tampa** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:45 pm

Leonard
Nice work! I like the the lightness look of the piece. Nice scale! Fine craftsmanship!!
Is it your own design or did you have plans?
Ed

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:38 pm

You guys make me feel so incompetent! That's a beautiful piece.

alancooke · Post by **alancooke** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:48 pm

Great Job! Be sure and show us the end tables too!!

charlese · Post by **charlese** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:10 pm

Very nice table! Like Ed, I particularly like the look of the of the top edges. Super design of a Mission piece. Also love your choice of woods!

fixit · Post by **fixit** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:57 pm

Thanks to all for the kind words. This was a fun project to build and the big smile on the customer's face when he came to pick it up made it even better.

Scottss: I made the mortises with the SS Mortising Attachment. It worked well (even before I saw Nick's explanation of how to use it on the Sawdust Session). I cut the tenons with the table saw - just nibbled away what I needed to get a tenon that wouldn't "quite" fit and trimmed them with a hand plane to get a good tight fit. The taper on the legs was cut with a taper jig on the table saw. The plan showed how to build the jig - very simple - but you run the piece through the saw reversed from the way you would normally use a taper jig.

Ed: I used the plan from Woodsmith Magazine. If you want to know which issue let me know - I'll have to look it up.

Charlese: The top edges have a bevel cut on the outside bottom edge to give the table a lighter look.

The end tables are nearly comlete. They are dry fit together right now. I still have a little "tweaking" to do to make the joints fit just right and then finish them. I've attached a picture of one of them in its current condition.

scottss · Post by **scottss** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:22 am

Say Leonard we must be on the same page. That is the end table I am making next. Issue #127 of woodsmith.

dickroan · Post by **dickroan** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:32 pm

Wow!! That picture stuck in my eye!! I would be proud to do something like that myself....I'll probably never get something to look like that...Thanks for the picture, it tells everyone that a SS owner can also be a real pro...dick roan

fixit wrote:Here's a picture of the coffee table I recently delivered to a customer. He supplied the rough cut lumber cut from trees harvested from his father's land in Tennessee. The majority of the work was done using the Shopsmith (all jointing/planing, table saw work, cutting mortises, tenons, and rabbets).

I'm now finishing up the two matching end tables to complete the set.