A lot of hand tool firsts in this small hall table. Hand sawn to rough dimension, planing tapered legs, router plane for inlay, coping saw, dados with saw and chisel, planing chamfered edges, shooting, file work, first mortise and tenon joinery and first shellac finish.
The top is a piece of Koa given to me by a neighbor, base is cherry with mahogany inlay.
A good bit of learning.
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A few "learnings" along the way. Most to do with the inlay.
Got lazy and ran the router plane through the far end...chip out, not to mention could have been a better fit for the inlay.
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Needed to spend a little more time smoothing out the curve....and a few other spots where a bit more planing or sanding would have helped.
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Can't tell from the photo, but the back left leg is slightly angled in...either off kilter shoulder, or less than square leg, or ?
All in all, a great project to get me a little further up the hand tool learning curve.