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This is a woodworking discussion forum and I have 300+ post, very few of them have anything to do with woodworking. There are 2 reasons for that, one I don't get to do a whole lot anymore and secondly I really don't have anything to brag about when I do. I am not so great at it :laughing:, just average.
So anyway I needed a coffee table and I dug through my "stash" and pulled out a decent looking piece of spalted curly maple. I edged it with walnut and made walnut legs, the skirt is also spalted curly maple.
I know the really talented woodworkers here will think to themselves....why didn't he use biscuits/dominoes to join the walnut edge instead of plugging it, why is it breadboxed instead of mitered, why didn't he taper the legs to match the tapered skirt or go with a square skirt and leave the legs square. The answer to those and any other questions is...cause it is my table and that is the way I wanted to do it :laughing::laughing:. (actually the plugs were a calculated thing. They are supposed to draw attention to the edge, not just the top. Maybe ? They were laid out to line up with the skirt cutout and each other.)
I just like the figured maple, pictures cannot do it justice.
So anyway I needed a coffee table and I dug through my "stash" and pulled out a decent looking piece of spalted curly maple. I edged it with walnut and made walnut legs, the skirt is also spalted curly maple.
I know the really talented woodworkers here will think to themselves....why didn't he use biscuits/dominoes to join the walnut edge instead of plugging it, why is it breadboxed instead of mitered, why didn't he taper the legs to match the tapered skirt or go with a square skirt and leave the legs square. The answer to those and any other questions is...cause it is my table and that is the way I wanted to do it :laughing::laughing:. (actually the plugs were a calculated thing. They are supposed to draw attention to the edge, not just the top. Maybe ? They were laid out to line up with the skirt cutout and each other.)
I just like the figured maple, pictures cannot do it justice.
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