Round old world coffee table

This is an excellent design! Well balanced yet massive.

A few questions:

• Did you turn the legs yourself? Are they from a solid large block or glued smaller blocks?
• Were the arced tabletop support/carved pieces radius cut from glue-up or were they bent? If bent, what thickness?
• Are the bottom radius ‘kick boards’ only supported at the intersection with the legs or do they have additional hidden feet or a metal framework for additional support. For decorate purposes, the leg only attachments would be fine but I could just imaging someone resting their feet or trying to stand on those and away they go.

Overall, this is a GREAT piece of furniture that I’d put in my house any day. Nice work.

-- Mike, Meridian, ID, www.fishfinridge.com

MtnManMEP,

The legs were glue ups, I turned them.
The carved aprons were cut from solid thick stock. No glue ups.
The curved strechers did have small feet in the center of their length for support.

Thanks,

-- Les, Wichita, Ks. (I'd rather be covered in saw dust!)

Very interesting piece, Les. I find the carvings to be the most interesting detail of the project.

Thanks for sharing.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

This is the second table I’ve seen from you, and I’m sure you’ve gotten the question before (and after every piece you do) but how many man-hours go into a table like this?

It does look old world, that’s for sure! Good job.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Amazing work, as usual ;)

-- "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!

Nice contrast, massive and delicate. Great Carving.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

WhiskeyWaters,

There’s around 115 hours in this one.

Thanks to all for your comments.

-- Les, Wichita, Ks. (I'd rather be covered in saw dust!)

Les,

I thought this kind of stuff is not made anymore (i.e. only the old timers had the skill to pull off something like this). It looks like I was wrong. Amazing piece.

Alin

-- -- Alin Dobra, Gainesville, Florida

You wouldn’t know that its made in this century!

Beautiful work. Looks like an heirloom piece from a century ago.

I’d have guessed about a billion man-hours. Great work.

-- Maplewood, MN

Great work, beautiful work, it is so unique, impressive. mike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

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