Small occasional table - Woodworking Talk

**Daren** · 09-11-2008, 01:22 PM

I showed some cedar cookies I sawed out just a few days ago. I am confident they where dry enough to use. They checked slightly in the expected places, nothing a few coats of marine varnish didn't fill up.

I made this little table as a gift. From a distance to me it looks a little "leggy", but up close you don't even notice the legs you are staring at the top. I didn't really have a plan just kinda threw the legs together and tried to come up with something sturdy.

Terry Beeson · 09-11-2008, 01:49 PM

Yeah, I can see the "leggy-ness" you're talking abouit, but it looks great otherwise... Probably cedar limbs for the legs would have made a difference...

Still... nice looking table.

**Daren** · 09-11-2008, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Terry Beeson

. Probably cedar limbs for the legs would have made a difference...

If it where my table (and I may make one for myself) that is what I would have done. But like I said this is a gift and I know this persons style preferences well, not exactly like mine and they would not like the limbs.

jpw23 · 09-11-2008, 09:19 PM

Nice work as usual Daren

Gerry KIERNAN · 09-14-2008, 01:23 PM

Gorgeous grain. I would go with cedar limbs for the legs too.

Gerry

ESCANABAJOSH · 09-16-2008, 07:25 AM

thats a nice table! i like how red the wood is. as for the legs, every table i see like this has the log/branch legs, kinda makes this one diffrent.

Daveb · 09-16-2008, 04:18 PM

I like it as well. Just as it is. I wonder if curved legs would have made a difference? Curved outward, feet wider apart at the base. The curve might blend the legs into the top.

Juniperlampguy · 09-17-2008, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Daren

If it where my table (and I may make one for myself) that is what I would have done. But like I said this is a gift and I know this persons style preferences well, not exactly like mine and they would not like the limbs.

Nice job Daren!,

I understand about your friends style preference, but I agree that it would look more fitting if it had legs made with cedar limbs.

I have made those kind of tables with legs, but don't anymore mainly because of the time it takes for the joinery.

My own personal preference would be to use a single free form base, like the base of a small cedar tree with maybe a little bit of roots spread out at the bottom for support.

**Daren** · 09-17-2008, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Juniperlampguy

My own personal preference would be to use a single free form base, like the base of a small cedar tree with maybe a little bit of roots spread out at the bottom for support.

Mine too. I have 3 of those tops left (sold one) I actually thought of your work when I decided I was going to make one for myself and was going to flat rip it off

. I am on the hunt right now for a suitable base for mine, went to the municipal wood waste burn pile yesterday looking for a treasure to drag home but came up empty handed.

**TexasTimbers** · 09-17-2008, 02:05 PM

I like all the methods mentioned, but I also like a mix of the "finsihed" or "refined' look of these legs with the rustic top. It's hard to make a mix that works though. This one did IMO - but if you don't like it Daren you could have used some stock just a little larger, and angled the four legs outward a little and it might have looked more balanced for your taste. Or if you didn't want to mess with the angles of the joints you could have cut the two outside planes of the legs on a taper so the bottom of the legs get gradually thicker than the tops and it gives it the same angled look with less fuss - know what I mean? You don't angle the two inside vertical planes and so the table saw work is real easy as well.

I like it persoanlly as is. there's way too much rustic we need a departure like this from time to time.

red · 10-02-2008, 12:35 PM

Was I the friend you’re sending it to? Very nice looking table. Red