The Woodshop Shed

adventures in woodworking and home maintenance, from my shop in an oversized backyard shed

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Ebonized Round Side Table

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Ebonized Round Side TableOne of those impromptu projects. My wife comes back from the furniture store with a side table she liked, assembles it and the thing stands skewed: legs aren't plum but the top is levelled! Table goes back to the store but not before I take down all dimensions and head to the shop.The top is 17” in diameter, 1 1/2” thick and sits 22” above the floor. The shelf is 15” in diameter, 1” thick and sits 7” above the floor. The legs are 1 5/8” wide x 5/8” thick. Made from solid maple so it is surprisingly heavy for its size.The most interesting aspect of this build was to figure out how to attach the legs to the top without an apron. Made a cross with two pieces (same width and thickness as the legs) joined with a half-lap. The legs are attached to the ends of the cross with a glued and screwed rabbet joint (rabbet in the leg only). The assembly is then glued and screwed into wide grooves made with the router, straight edge and top-bearing template bit. Technically there's one groove and one dado because I oriented the slots with and across the grain of the top. This way I was able to glue one piece of the cross to the top over its entire length and only glued the middle 4” for the other. If you look carefully at the picture of the underside you can see the elongated screw holes in the outside ends of the piece that runs across the grain and the dado it sits in is longer to allow for seasonal wood movement. Using a hand plane I flattened 4 sections of the shelf's perimeter to make a good glue connection with the shallow dados in the legs. 16 gauge nails inserted into the shelf from the leg side reinforce the joint.The finish is Saman black stain with Saman flat poly (sold as floor poly) applied using a HVLP gun.



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Changing Table for First Granddaughter

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Changing Table for First GranddaughterDaughter asked me to build a changing table for her after the one she bought from Amazon broke as they tried to assemble it. Unfortunately, she asked this of me on August 1st and my first granddaughter was due Sep 29th. So, I spent two months working anywhere from 4 (after work) to 10 hours (weekends) a day on this. Sadly, my granddaughter arrived two weeks, 1 Oct, before I could deliver it but everyone is happy with it.With the exception of the obvious hinge or slide, the only screws that can be found on this thing hold the front shelves and the back scroll work bracket in place. Otherwise, there are 28 mortise and tenon joints (bought a mortiser for them) plus four sets of hand cut dovetails and half lap joinery in this project. I put a LED light strip with a dimmer behind the scroll work so the daughter doesn't have to use the overhead light at night. And I had to use unicorns for the drawer liners as no one anywhere sells fairy paper. But, they are both magical so it works (hahaha)The hamper and pad are from the Amazon piece of junk that broke



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Zebrawood EGCB

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Zebrawood EGCBThere's a local cabinet shop very close to us, and I stop in infrequently to chat and to check out his bin of drops. He had recently built cabinets for a client of zebrawood and he had quite a few narrow drops of 3/4 thickness. He told me to take whatever I wanted, and I did. I made this end grain cutting board for a charity raffle to benefit Water For People. The finished size is 11×13x3/4. It is not nearly as thick as I had planned because the glue up shifted in the clamps without my noticing.I thought about Eddie today while I was using the belt sander I bought from his estate. RIP Eddie!



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