The Basement Workshop



Siloam Walnut Coffee Table Album

First And Second Design Of Base



Fourteen Year Old Markings and Glue Joints



Gluing Fourteen Year Old Halves



Mock-Up Of Base In Living Room



Front View Of Mock-Up



Scraping Center Glue Joint Full Shot



Outside Alignment Edges Drawn



Leg Blanks And Overlays



Overlays Arranged On Leg Blanks



Scraping Overlays



Gluing Leg Overlays



Legs Overlaid Trimmed And Planed



Sawing Tapered Leg Shoulders



Ends Shoulders And First Inside Curve Cut



Spokeshaving Inside Curves Full Shot



Overlays Glued To Stretchers



Closeup Of Overlays Glued To Stretchers



Planing Faces of Stretchers



Planed Face Of Stretcher



Closeup Of Planed Face Of Stretcher



Ends Of Stretchers Trimmed - Testing Leg Reveal



Testing Leg Reveal Closeup



Checking Legs And Strechers Prior To Cutting Loose Mortise And Tenons



Setting Up To Cut Mortises



Adjusting Mortise Height



Cutting The Stop Holes



Cutting Between The Stop Holes



Bandsawn Leg Shoulder



Planing The Leg Shoulders



Setup For Gluing Loose Tenons Into Stretchers



Mortise and Loose Tenon



Working The Back Edge With A Spokeshave



Working The Leg Edges With A Spokeshave



Prefinishing With Oil



Top Prefinished With Oil



Closeup Of Top Prefinished With Oil



Gluing First Mortise and Tenon



Gluing Last Two Mortise and Tenons



Checking Level After Initial Clamping



Joining Top and Base



Marking the Table



Polished Base



Front View With Rug



Finished Table On Bench Closeup



Right Front End



End From Right



End Oblique On Drop Cloth



Right Front Leg



Top and Apron Along the Edge



Wormhole



Long Overhang



Left Front Detail



Right Front Leg Closeup



Polished Top



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Last Step -- Resharpening