Cherry side table (first real project)

Welcome to LJ! I am amazed with the projects talented woodworkers post here every day and you will be too.
This is pretty impressive for your first project! Your mortise and tenons are really tight.
Keep them coming!

-- "They don't want it perfect - they want it SPECIAL"

Very nice table, welcome to LJs

Well done!! Welcome to LJ’s.

-- Jack, Albuquerque

Great job! Looks good. Drawers with dovetails? Continue to think outside the box. LOL!

-- Cau Haus Designs, Thomas J. Tieffenbacher

Hugepark – it looks well done. And of course I like it because it is very much like MY first project, posted here earlier this year :)

Don’t be overwhelmed by all of the fabulous information on this site – you will never be able to keep up, so take your time looking at projects and reading blogs and forums that are of current interest to you. The rest will be here when you are ready.

Have fun!

-- Kay - Just a girl who loves wood.

I like it ! The curves on the stretchers are a nice touch. Looks infintely more sturdy than the junk from big box stores.

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That is a marvelous table and exceptional for a first project. I built matching tables similar to yours (posted here somewhere). I love the A&C style. Don’t let the drawers intimidate you. Just make an open topped box out of secondary wood and then put a front on from your “good” wood.

-- If the world was a logical place, men would be the ones who ride horses sidesaddle.

Thanks to all for the warm and welcoming comments—what a friendly board this is!

That looks great. Good call on omitting the tile. What did you use to finish it?

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@lumberjoe—the finish is probably the part I’m least happy with (other than a few other mistakes I made!). I didn’t realize how blotchy stain can get on cherry but I found that out on some test pieces. I had already put everything together with cherry though so I just took a safer route and used an amber colored bulls eye shellac and put some poly on top of that. I’ve heard that cherry darkens over time so we’ll just wait and see.

The current project I’m using quartersawn white oak (which I’ve used on some smaller weekend projects), and so I’m thinking it will be easier than cherry to get the color I’m looking for.

RE: The blotch issue, check out Charles Neil’s “Blotch Control” Reviewed on this website and Woodwhisperer.

-- Cau Haus Designs, Thomas J. Tieffenbacher

Thanks @DocSavage45

That is a sturdy looking table. Well done!

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Now that is a beautiful table! That is just the style I love and you did a great job of bringing out the simple beauty of the style. I have always thought that the mission ( craftsman arts and crafts ) stlye looks very nice when done n cherry. I think you just proved my point with that table.

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Looking forward to seeing your next project. As Charles says, “keep the finish in mind, its half the project.” :-)

-- Cau Haus Designs, Thomas J. Tieffenbacher