The Handy Hall Table

Now thats a loaded table, great project.

I don’t get the Zinzer product where I live. What’s your beef with it? Is it a gel or liquidy?

Thanks cw.
mtk: it was just hard to get even coverage, to start with it came out splotchy. Finally, I had to put some wood conditioner on it and it worked ok. My preference for a finish is just natural wood, but this is what the customer wanted.

-- Carl Rast, Pelion, SC

That is Awesome!! Is there any way you could show more details on how to make the hidden latch and keyed lock?

-- RJ

RJS, the latch is really simple. If you look in the center of the drawer face in the last picture, you can see a groove I cut with a dovetail router bit. This extends from top to bottom. In that groove is a piece of maple about 3/16” thick that is beveled to fit sort of snugly but loose enough to slide up and down. Under the bottom shelf, I mortised a hole for it to slide into. As the bottom of the drawer face extends about an inch below the drawer bottom, I cut a little depression in the beveled piece of maple that you can catch your finger on if you curl it under the center of the drawer face. Up, it locks. Down, it unlocks. I think I got this out of a past issue of Popular Woodworking that I can’t seem to put my hands on tonight.
The lock on the back is just a barrel cylinder lock I got from Woodcraft that goes through the back of the base. It catches on a piece of metal screwed onto the back of the drawer. Hope this helps as I don’t have any more pictures.

-- Carl Rast, Pelion, SC

Carl, It does help. I am very amateur, so I only kind of understand. It will take me a lot of practice. Thank you for the direction.

-- RJ

Wow that tables packing neat looking table

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Very nice table indeed.
Now I know where to look for when I need that killing machine,....ha ha ha.

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.