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end (side) tables with floating tops and curved legs

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sketchup

After lots of searching around and checking out various end table designs, I had settle on the one that SPalm did:

http://lumberjocks.com/projects/3210

I even asked him if he minded me using his design. In the meanwhile, I was reading Don Kondra's photography entry and looked up his FWW article and was immediately in love. (Sorry, Steve… I just can't fight it!)

So, I did some measuring and built up a sketchup design that thins the original plans down a touch and fits with the dimensions that I need. And here we go:





The sketchup is available here. Frankly, this sketchup was a serious challenge due to the curved legs and even the mitered table top (took me a while to figure out the "smart" way to solve that problem).

I am leaving for vacation in 10 days, and haven't acquired wood yet, so I probably won't make any progress for a month, but thought I'd share the sketchup and pic.

I welcome any and all commentary-positive and negative. I haven't done curved legs before, so I think that will be the biggest challenge here. Luckily Don's article has a pretty good explanation of what's going on.

-b
 
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Ben, you have chosen wisely. That is a beautiful table. I remember that article when it came out. Note that Don mentions to let the wood acclimate to your shop/house. You are going to be removing a lot of wood from all sides and it may want to 'relax' after you shape it.

Steve
 
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