I suppose I'll now be banned from the group making stuff with their spinny things but, a guy just has to do what a guy has to do! In this case, it was a for my #1 client. Yeah, read that as: the LOML!She wanted a small sofa table, though one which wouldn't get in the way of traffic and would be a bit bigger than the straight part of the sectional. We finally decided on the design shown here. Not a single 90° on the thing! (Let's not get technical about the legs being perpendicular to the table parts!!!
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Main flats of the table are glued up BE Maple and I sure do wish the pictures would pick up the character of the wood better, as it's really nice! The apron was going to be Cherry until the LOML stopped into visit me at my #2 job and spotted this Bubinga sitting in the rack. So, the plan obviously changed, though we really do like the more extensive contrast added against the BE Maple.
The legs are 1" round SS tubes. Expensive you say??? NOT!!! I picked them up at a surplus/salvage place not too far from us for dirt cheap. They were actually tubes from disassembled commercial kitchen carts. (Some, complete with these BIG wheels.) I originally took some buffing compound to them and shined them up nice but, after looking more at them, they almost had a chrome look, which is not what I was after. I thought (ouch!) about it for a bit and made up a jamb drive for my lathe and mounted a leg between the centers. Fired up the lathe and took some 400 paper to it. End result was a nice "brushed" finish look to them.
The BE is 3/4" net and was rough cut on the BS. I had made templates out of some hardboard and finished them up with a pattern bit on my router. Just the slightest round-over on the top pieces to ease the edge a bit and then a pretty drastic chamfer back below to give the tops a bit lighter look. This was also the first time I had ever attempted a bent lamination. Now that was a "treat"!!!
Finish schedule was a couple coats of Velvit Oil, a couple coats of spray shellac and about 7 coats of Watco lacquer. After curing, a real light pass with 400 to knock off major nibs, then 600 wet sand (both with the Porter Cable Speed Bloc sander), followed with a machine and hand rub-out using Behlen Buffer's Polish and finally, a couple coats of Renaissance Wax. Results are smooth as glass!As always, thanks for taking a peek and critiques are most welcome!
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Originally Posted by Richard Wolf
