Posts in the «furniture» Category
- Coffee Table / Chest / Play Table (6) – Finishing Up
Gluing the Base
The base of this chest / play table is pretty large and I needed help getting all the pieces in place for the dry fit and the glue up. Fortunately my Father-in-law was here, so I enlisted his help. The dry fit went well, so we rehearsed who was going to be gluing [...]
- Coffee Table / Chest / Play Table (5) – Pattern Cutting Feet
The four side panels of this play table chest could simply rest on the floor, but it is pretty likely that the chest would rock a bit on a slightly uneven floor. It would also look a little bit too boxy for my taste. So I planned to trim away sections of each panel to [...]
- Coffee Table / Chest / Play Table (4) – Dados
With the dovetails now cut and dryfit, it is time to create the dado (a groove) in the side panels that will hold the floor of the chest in place. By planning for the location of the dado to terminate in a tail, I only have to create stopped dados in the tails, so only on [...]
- Coffee Table / Chest / Play Table (3) – Dovetails
The base of the chest will be held together with through dovetails (meaning the end grain of the tails will show). I like the alternating look of the endgrain and facegrain combinations. I have to admit that I am not an outstanding dovetailer …. some day I hope to be, but I’m not there yet..not [...]
- Coffee Table / Chest / Play Table (2)
So from my drawing of the Coffee Table / Chest / Play Table I determined how much wood I would need and returned from the home center with a decent selection of white pine.
The table sides are all panels 18″ high, so I created them by joining two 1″ x10″s By the time I jointed [...]
- Coffee Table / Chest / Play Table (1) Plan
I was at a high-end children’s toy store the other day with my son (1 yr old) and watched his eyes light up over a table full of Brio trains on a play table. As I watched how he used the table to play I noticed that the raised edge of the table kept the [...]