Thread: tables for around the house

While I'm showing off, here are a couple of tables I built to try and enhance my woodworking skills. The first is used as a phone table and built to the requirements of my wife. It was made from a mixture of northern and southern silky oak, river red gum and blue gum. The centre sections were veneered to wood movement wasn't a problem. I tapered the legs on the jointer. I think this made for a far quicker and better finish than by using the bandsaw. When I made this I didn't realise there are two varieties of silky oak and the contrast using the southern variety is far more pleasing to the eye.

The second table is from ironbark and the top is cyprus pine. I tried to float the table using designs of other tables seen on the net, in hindsight I should have raised the table a lot more. I tried to make the legs using a combination of a gradual curve and taper, again, I should have made it more pronounced. I glued three pieces to make the legs and three pieces to get the width of the table top. I like this piece as the finish on the ironbark is fantastic. I used feastwatson floor seal and finished with buffing oil.

Lastly is a end grain cutting board made from jarrah and silver ash. this was my first attempt at this sort of job and although not very hard was pretty time consuming, especially sanding end grain. Anyway I reckon it looks fine and thanks to an American web site for the design.