The big project for this Holiday Season was these tables. They may win an award for the longest running simple project ever - I made the tops over ten years ago! I had just bought a plane and squared the edges while holding the wood in a shopmate, had to put one foot on the shopmate to keep it from falling over with the force of the plane! Watched the tops warp and straighten over the years as I moved them around two iterations of workshop.
Finally, while watching the Steve Latta video on stringing, I got the desire to finish them. Of course oak is inappropriate for a federal table, so I decided to try a celtic knot. Some sketching showed that I needed to use a double line so that the "over/under" of the knotwork would show.
Also, Holly was not going to show in oak, so walnut was chosen.
I was going to turn some walnut pulls, but once I did the inlay on the drawer fronts, it became obvious that something rectangular was needed.
I think it came out pretty nice, and my wife, the recipient loves them! Brownie points for me.
Thanks for looking,
Mike
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