A Little Table (Pics)

[JWS Penworks]

THis is a little table that I built for my Mom's Kitchen. It is a taller table to accomodate her stool. She wanted a little table that would fit in her smallish Kitchen where she could write letters and pay her bills and such. It is based very loosely on Shaker Style. It's 38" tall, 24" wide, 17" deep. I used some of the lumber that I got from the .45 cent a board foot soft maple that was sold on the forum last year. Legs have about 5 degrees of taper. The apron is 4", and is attached to the legs with mortise and tenon joinery. (My first attempt at it) The top is attached with figure 8's. The finish is Tung Oil.

I found one really nice board that I was able to make the top out of.

Thanks for looking,
John

 

[alphageek]

Very Nice!!! Beautiful table, with an incredible top.

 

[Woodlvr]

Very nice work. I love the top. I will bet that she is pleased with it also.

 

[JWS Penworks]

She LOVES the top. I made her a pen out of the left over material from the top :biggrin:

Thanks!
John

 

[Skye]

Man, that is some curly wood! I wonder how many pens I could get out of that.....

Great table!

 

[GaryMGg]

Nice job all around; great figured table top.

 

[thewishman]

Very pretty table - nice work. (I was coveting the top for pen blanks, too.)

 

[keithkarl2007]

pretty slick :biggrin:

 

[JWS Penworks]

You guys got it bad when all you can see is pen blanks :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

 

[keithkarl2007]

don't laugh it up :biggrin: i was in a furniture store the other day and seen a little table. all i could think was how many blanks, hhhmmmmm

 

[holmqer]

An excellent design and execution. Especially impressive as you had to learn some new techniques to make it. The top is lovely.

 

[ahoiberg]

hey, nice looking table. i'm curious to know how you ended up attaching the top?

 

[PTJeff]

Great scale, and love the top, you really got the figure to "pop"

 

[sparhawk]

Really nice work. Thats a great table.

 

[Fred]

Mom ought to be very pleased indeed. I do believe I see your favorite pie being made in the very near future. And along those lines you might ought to get busy and make her a serving platter to compliment the wood used in the table.

And the list could continue on and on and on ...

 

[JWS Penworks]

hey, nice looking table. i'm curious to know how you ended up attaching the top?

The top is attached with figure 8's.

Thanks!
John

 

[VisExp]

John, the table looks beautiful. The tapered legs really set it off and the grain on the top is very nice. Did you cut the taper using a bandsaw or did you make a jig for your table saw?

 

[PaulDoug]

Now that is super! Great job.

 

[JWS Penworks]

John, the table looks beautiful. The tapered legs really set it off and the grain on the top is very nice. Did you cut the taper using a bandsaw or did you make a jig for your table saw?

I used a taper jig that I picked up cheap at a Woodworking show last year, and cut them on the table saw.

Thanks!
John

 

[ahoiberg]

The top is attached with figure 8's.

Thanks!
John

clearly i'm blind. i didn't even notice you answered this question in the initial description of the table. thanks for replying anyway!

you've inspried me to give something like this a shot.

 

[Tn-Steve]

I think that it's really neat that you made a pen out of some of the leftover wood from the table. That's something I probably wouldn't have considered, but it really adds to the "Special" factor for the project.

Steve

 

[Ozzy]

Nice job. The top is beautiful.