Another Coffee Table: Introduction
I
have begun the build, but this is just prep at this stage.
This
is the design chosen by my nephew ..
There
shall be a few interesting challenges along the way since I am using
solid wood all the way.
The joinery will be rounded corners
shaped from through dovetails, mitred at each side. The challenge is
to have accurately cut and fitted dovetails in hard Jarrah (no
compression) as the outside will be removed in the rounding
process.
The
other challenge is the splayed and angled legs which, for added
strength, will be fitted to a traditional rail design, that is, the
legs and stretchers will be mortice-and-tenon joinery. The legs will
splay from the corners.
Lastly,
the drawer will extend the full width, and be opened from either end.
No handles?
Beginning
the prep by resawing some really nice Fiddleback Jarrah, which will
be the top and sides. The length of the coffee table is to be 1000mm
...
I
was watching the boards come out of the blade, keeping an eye on the
kerf for movement. This even kerf told me that the boards were going
to be well-mannered and stable ...
Here's
an example of the figure. These boards will be bookmatched to create
a width of 500mm ...
The
lower side of the coffee table will be made of more "common"
narrower Jarrah boards (still extremely nice!). I picked up a length
4m long, and then joined three together to get the width
...
The
boards were stickered for a week ..
Some
may have liked to have accentuated the centre figure this way when
book-matching ...
Too
busy for my liking.
I preferred this ...
And
this is where I left the boards at the end of last weekend
...
Regards
from Perth
Derek
November 2018