Coffee Table

Beautiful Job!

How thick is the top?

Thanks lew. All the pieces but the pegs are 1”. (I guess you call those thingums through the stretchers, pegs?)

-- Brian

I like this very much. very well done. one of my favorites

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

Luuuuuverly – I love things with “weird” angles, but it works great.

Cool boxer dog – I think all project pics should have an animal in them, just for scale, you understand :-)

Very nice!

-- "Give me your poor tools, your tired steel, your huddled masses of rust." Yep, I ripped off the Statue of Liberty. That's how I roll!

Looks good

-- Marge, Colorado

I really like it. Good work

-- Thos. Angle

Thats really nice. I’d be interested in seeing some pics of the mock up and the ‘figuring out’ process.

Great Job!!!

-- Dennis Zongker

Thanks everybody.

Unfortunately I didn’t take pictures while I was figuring out the MDF prototype. I’ll get a camera to keep in the workshop, so I can be more helpful in the future. There is one picture of it in the background on my workshop page.

For figuring out the prototype these steps worked for me:

Start with the legs. Bevel the tops of the legs at the “splay” angle. 8 deg for mine. (The bottoms can be beveled after shaping the curve.) cut the through mortises in the legs for the stretchers. (Straight mortise walls at 90 deg.)

Cut the stretchers, but not the lap joint where they intersect. Because of the tilt of the legs, the through tenons will be angled up as they exit the mortise. (8 deg? I don’t remember.)

You can cut the through mortises in the stretchers and make some temporary pegs at this point. Remember that if you are using MDF to make a prototype, the differing thickness change some measurements in the real thing.

Assemble the stretchers and legs. Play with these to get the angle you want for the lap joint between the stretchers. This may be determined by the dimensions of your top.

Cut the lap joints in the stretchers and dry fit. From this, you can determine the angles and dimensions of the rails. This was a trial and error measuring process, and playing with the CMS.

-- Brian

awesome design. very nice.

-- "In my family, there was no clear division between religion and fly fishing" - Norman Maclean