Nearly a year in the making and just a few months late for the intended 30th wedding anniversary but it is at last finished.
It all starts with a monogram made famous by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. With a little help from my friends a suitable font, design and size was agreed upon to meet the finished tables dimensions. The monogram will become the legs.
The design was printed out and stuck to some scrap pine boards to make a prototype to test the design. Two boards were screwed together so both legs were cut at the same time.
The large external curves were cut on the bandsaw.
The smaller internal spaces were cut on the scroll saw.
Two finished legs
Which could them be offered up to an existing table to test for scale.
Next up a number of 4” wide, 1” thick oak boards were glued together to make the table top and the legs.
The pattern was then stuck to the glued oak boards and the monogram cut.
The table top was then squared up on the table saw.
The edges of the top were rounded over with the router.
Holes and dowels were made to attach the rails and stretcher.
Oak buttons were added to cover the dowels
The legs were finished with equal parts of polyurethane varnish, white spirit and tung oil mixed together and brushed on. The top had 3 or 4 coats of Patina, a hard wax oil.
