This coffee table was a good skill building project with somewhere around 30 mortises and a set of breadboard ends. It also was a good excuse to break out the handplanes to flatten the top. The top is 1.25"×24"×50".
Thank you guys!
Splintergroup I used dowels to attach the spindles using a shop made jig. I also agree with the warm and fuzzy experience using handplanes. I have slipped far into that rabbit hole. I use handplanes to surface one side of all of my lumber before running it thru the planer. I also use a smoother for all of my finishing with mixed results. Nothing like the sound of a tune smoother skating across the suface rolling light fluffy shavings.