Apple wood & Walnut Stand

This is another early project. The wood came from the same apple tree that the little stool was made from—another slab from the same crotch piece for the top. The walnut was some stuff I scavenged from a remodeling project at my local library.

Looking back, I can see the stand is a bizarre confabulation of joinery. The base is made up of a small log split in half with a dado in the top for the “leg” that projects to the front. There are 3 walnut “feet” that are dadoed, glued & screwed into the base. The single pedestal is mortised through the leg and glued. At the top of the pedestal are two “aprons” on each side screwed to the pedestal (holes covered with fake pegs) and then screws through the bottom of the aprons secure the top. It was finished with several coats of tung oil.

It was a the first piece I ever sold, so I was a little proud of that, but it was full of imperfections which I’m not proud of (I suppose that’s the lot of a woodworker…) Weird as it is, it was important to me.

Dan