Mother's Day - Telephone Table

**Scissors** · 13th May 2007, 04:11 PM

In typical fashion of cutting it down to the wire, here is a telephone table I made for my grandmother, I only just finished screwing the buttons to the top. I just have to deliver it this arvo.

The timber is silver ash trimmed with jarrah finished with hard shellac. I'm getting a bit sick of silver ash and jarrah but hey, one works with what one has. The joinery is all mortise and tenon, the top was shaped with a round-over bit and block-plane and the legs were shaped with the table saw and a spokeshave. I think that about covers it.

Design-wise, I wish the top overhang was slightly more pronounced, I had originally intended it to be, but ran out of wood and I didn't want to shorten the apron pieces. Ah well, we live and learn.

**Wood Borer** · 13th May 2007, 10:31 PM

I bet your grandmother was thrilled to the bone receiving the beautiful table. Nice work.

**zenwood** · 14th May 2007, 11:58 AM

Sweet: I especially like the profile around the top edges: unusual but works very well.

**Wongo** · 14th May 2007, 12:06 PM

Nice little table mate. Your work looks tidy.

Well done.

**bitingmidge** · 14th May 2007, 12:06 PM

Really really nice Scissors!

Where is the Jarrah?

I was only having a giggle about telephone tables yesterday morning, we have a stool from my grandmother's on which the "walk around" usually sits.

I suspect the telephone table will shortly be relegated with, the lowboy the hall stand and perhaps the wash-stand as pieces which came from a particular time in our history, so it's nice to see a contemporary version.

Cheers,
P

**silentC** · 14th May 2007, 12:10 PM

Where is the Jarrah?

You need to adjust your monitor

Look along the bottom of the aprons.

Nice table. I like the top overhang, makes it look more modern and clean. Overhangs are good for skinning your shins on

**Rocker** · 14th May 2007, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by Scissors

I'm getting a bit sick of silver ash and jarrah ...

Scissors,

As Dr Samuel Johnson said, "Sir, when a man is tired of silver ash and jarrah, he is tired of life". OK, maybe he was talking about London, but same difference - dissing silver ash and jarrah could get you banned

Rocker

**Scissors** · 14th May 2007, 12:25 PM

Forgive me! Let me rephrase!

I, err, umm, feel, err guilty for using so much silver ash and jarrah and thereby umm, depriving my most worthy forumite comrades from purchasing it cheaply? Yeah, that's the one!

Thanks for all the kind words. After all the rushing to get it finished, I wasn't able to deliver it as the lady wasn't at home, ah well, tonight will do.

**bitingmidge** · 14th May 2007, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by silentC

You need to adjust your monitor

Look along the bottom of the aprons.

Nope! It's my eyes that need adjusting, I read the dark bits to be the shadow from the flash! (didn't for a minute question how that could happen with a pic which wasn't taken with one!

)

Nice table. I like the top overhang, makes it look more modern and clean. Overhangs are good for skinning your shins on

Exactly how tall are you?

I still like it, even now I can see the Jarrah!

P

**silentC** · 14th May 2007, 12:46 PM

Exactly how tall are you?

Not very tall but like a prawn: all legs and crap for brains

**gazaly** · 14th May 2007, 11:23 PM

Stunning in it's simplicity.

All the silver ash your sick of can be forwarded to me if you like?

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