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31st March 2010, 09:43 AM #1
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Myrtle 4 drawer coffee table
Pic 1: I cut the top dovetail sockets on the legs before shaping them.
Pic 2: The front and back frames were assembled with the sides dry fitted to check on fit & appearance
Pic 3: Dry assembled with centre runners & kickers.
Pic 4: The glue up
Pic 5: The finished table
Pic 6: Close up of drawer dovetails.
The legs were bandsawn roughly to shape, then cleaned up with a spokeshave and scraper. The frames were M&T joined, and the sides morticed into the legs.
The table was sanded to 800 grit, given a coat of thinned shellac as a sanding sealer, re-sanded & finished with 3 coats of satin wipe-on polyurethane.
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31st March 2010, 09:58 AM #2
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Beautiful!!
Love the clean lines of the piece.
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31st March 2010, 10:10 AM #3
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Great work, thanks for sharing.
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31st March 2010, 10:41 AM #4
What... you mean it's not 1792?
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I like the two big dovetails.
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31st March 2010, 10:51 AM #5
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Beautiful work. Love it. I really like myrtle.
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31st March 2010, 11:18 AM #6
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Lovely job - nice design, well executed.
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31st March 2010, 11:19 AM #7
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so beautiful!
shame the beauty of those dovetails are hidden, but I suppose it makes seeing them even more special when you use the drawers. 
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31st March 2010, 01:28 PM #8
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Very nice indeed. Love the style and the way it was put together.
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31st March 2010, 02:58 PM #9
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Nice work, as you always seem to do Alex
I really like the dovetails, and the shape of the legs is very subtle, but adds even more elegance to the piece.
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31st March 2010, 03:17 PM #10
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That is very nice Alex.
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31st March 2010, 03:45 PM #11
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Very elegant looking piece!
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31st March 2010, 06:13 PM #12
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31st March 2010, 11:33 PM #13
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Really like the "expanding legs", instead of tapering. Makes it really ON the ground. Do the draws go all the way through and open from both sides?
Will have to show HWMBO! He tried to tell me people didn't do coffee tables with draws.
And what would you put in them anyway? If the remotes were in there it would just be another place where they weren't. 
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1st April 2010, 12:12 AM #14
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My wife didn't buy that BS and I am making a table with a drawer as we speak. We have a huge number of remotes but just use one universal remote now. But we still have to put them all somewhere....
Originally Posted by tea lady
Really like the "expanding legs", instead of tapering. Makes it really ON the ground. Do the draws go all the way through and open from both sides?
Will have to show HWMBO! He tried to tell me people didn't do coffee tables with draws. And what would you put in them anyway? If the remotes were in there it would just be another place where they weren't.
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1st April 2010, 08:32 AM #15
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Hi TL. The drawers were originally going to go all the way through, but after thinking about difficulties with allowing for movement of the bottom, I decided to go with 4 drawers. Originally Posted by tea lady
Do the draws go all the way through and open from both sides?
... And what would you put in them anyway? If the remotes were in there it would just be another place where they weren't.
They are for the remotes and the lady of the house to keep her magazines in.
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