Mission style coffee table

[cdcarter]

First non-pen I've ever posted here, but this is really more what I do.

See those little accents on the legs? Well, that's what you do when you cut a mortise without referring to the plan and realize you don't have a tenon to put there. So you grab some redheart from your penmaking stock, run it through the router a few times and make it look like a through tenon (albeit one that doesn't have any function).

 

[GaryMGg]

That's called a design element. Nice work Carl.
Miters looks crisp and I presume the other joinery is mortise & tenon. That's a bunch of 'em. Looks fine.

 

[cdcarter]

Not as many as you think!

Only the rail/leg joints are mortise & tenon. The spindles actually sit in a sort of strip that I inserted in a groove in the end rails. That way I could cut them fingerboard style, then trap the tenoned spindles in them at glue-up time. Otherwise, I'd have been cutting 52 mortises and cussing quite a lot!

Put biscuits in the miters.

 

[GaryMGg]

Four stopped dadoes instead of 52 mortises. Well, it certainly turned out good.

 

[johncrane]

Looks darn nice from here top job.[]

 

[ahoiberg]

that's a beaut... great work!

 

[Randy_]

Looks like a very fancy test bed for finding bent pen mandrels.

Nice job!!

 

[Ron in Drums PA]

LOL - I love mistakes that turn out so well.

I did the same thing once on the legs on the set of three Shaker End Tables. The legs where tapered and I still had the cut off.

Now you know why I learned to do inlays.

 

[alamocdc]

Nice design change, Carl. Of course things like that never happen to the rest of us. [}][]

 

[wudnhed]

What talent, beautiful!

 

[cdcarter]

I've bent enough mandrels that I could use one of those!

Originally posted by Randy_

Looks like a very fancy test bed for finding bent pen mandrels.

Nice job!!

 

[cdcarter]

Funny thing is, the accents are everybody's favorite part of it. If I did another, I'd probably use them again. Being spacey pays off now and then.

Originally posted by alamocdc

Nice design change, Carl. Of course things like that never happen to the rest of us. [}][]

 

[fernhills]

Hi, Carl, only thing is if ya try to repeat mistake you have to do all that cussing.. Carl