By Robert W. Lang
Build your talents as you construct incredible tables!
Inside, you will find step by step images and guideline, plus measured drawings, for 17 tables in a variety of types and ability degrees (including a number of good-looking items you could simply construct in a weekend).
From uncomplicated tapered legs to modern cabrioles, from easy slap tops to draw-leaf tops, from part tables to video game tables--you'll study the ideas, instruments, and joinery essential to construct great-looking tables for each room on your house.
Plus, you will find 5 strategy articles to benefit abilities you could adapt for desk designs (as good as different tasks) of your own.
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Clean up the results with a block plane. After you work the long edges of the tabletop down, work the short edges in the same manner. Attach the tabletop using shop-made wooden buttons – mine were 1 ⁄2" × 1" × 11 ⁄2". The buttons have a 1 ⁄4" × 3 ⁄4" lip that reaches into the mortises in the aprons. When you screw the buttons to the tabletop, the top stays in place, yet it can move with the seasons. ) 4 6 • W H I T E WA T E R S H A K E R T A B L E The table’s two drawer runners are nailed to the front and rear aprons – from the outside of the table.
The hole itself will create the small radius for the transition. After making the two holes per foot, head to the band saw to cut away the portion between the radius cuts to finish the pad shapes. Some simple shaping using a couple of saws will give the feet an even more graceful look. First cut a 7° bevel on the ends of the feet using the table saw. Next, make a mark 3 ⁄4" down from the top edge at the ends of each foot. Make another mark 101 ⁄2" in toward the mortise at the top of the leg. Connect the two marks and you have the slope for the top of each foot.
The upper front rail is horizontal, and joins the tops of the legs with a carcase dovetail joint. web (or frame). The drawers ride on the web and are guided into the interior of the desk. com). Selecting the Stock Providence Writing Desk NO. ITEM DIMENSIONS (INCHES) T W L MATERIAL 3 ⁄4 1 Top 22 36 Mahogany 4 Legs 13 ⁄4 13 ⁄4 29 Mahogany 3 ⁄4 1 Rear apron 41 ⁄2 331 ⁄4 Mahogany 3 ⁄4 2 Side aprons 41 ⁄2 191 ⁄4 Mahogany 3 ⁄4 1 Upper front rail 15 ⁄8 33 Mahogany 3 ⁄4 1 Lower front rail 15 ⁄8 321 ⁄4 Mahogany 3 ⁄4 1 Drawer divider 3 2 Mahogany 3 ⁄4 2 Drawer fronts 3 14 3 ⁄8 Mahogany 1 ⁄4 5 ⁄16 1 Beaded trim 24 Mahogany 1 ⁄4 1 ⁄2 1 Beaded trim 144 Mahogany 3 ⁄4 1 Rear upper rail 2 30 3 ⁄4 Mahogany 3 ⁄8 4 Drawer sides 3 18 Maple 3 ⁄8 2 Drawer backs 3 14 3 ⁄8 Maple 1 ⁄4 2 Drawer bottoms 181 ⁄4 14 Maple 3 ⁄4 1 Drawer partition 3 18 3 ⁄4 Maple 3 ⁄4 1 Lateral rail 15 ⁄8 30 Maple 3 ⁄4 2 Longitudinal rails 2 181 ⁄8 Maple 3 ⁄4 1 Longitudinal rail 4 181 ⁄8 Maple 3 ⁄4 7 ⁄8 4 Drawer guides 181 ⁄2 Maple *Mill profi le for beaded trim for legs and below drawers from wider piece and cut to fit lengths 38 • P ROV I DE NC E W R I T I NG DE SK COMMENTS 11 ⁄4" tenon, both ends 11 ⁄4" tenon, both ends 11 ⁄8 " dovetail, both ends 3 ⁄4" tenon, both ends 1 ⁄4" dado across back See note* See note* Notched around legs 1 ⁄4" tongue one end notched around legs 1 ⁄4" tongue both ends 1 ⁄4" tongue both ends APRON TO BACK LEG JOINERY RAIL TO FRONT LEG JOINERY 34" 15 ⁄8" 15 ⁄8" 163 ⁄4" 20" 30 3 ⁄4" LEG PATTERN PLAN BELOW TOP Each square = 1" 22" 36" 1" 143⁄8" 2" 1" 15⁄8" 3" 41⁄2" 29" ELEVATION PROFILE F U R N I T U R E F U N DA M E N TA L S • 39 stock to 13 ⁄4" and drawing the template pattern for the legs, trace the outline onto the leg blanks.