The Woodworking Life

The Woodworking Life

skinny legs and all

comments (5) April 23rd, 2009 in blogs, Reader's Gallery

fidgen Tom Fidgen, contributor
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A blend of exposed hand cut joinery highlight the tables delicate form.
Beads, dovetails and pegged mortise and tenon joints all add to the aesthetic appeal.
Half blind dovetails and custom drawer pulls.
A blend of exposed hand cut joinery highlight the tables delicate form. - CLICK TO ENLARGE

A blend of exposed hand cut joinery highlight the tables delicate form.

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I designed and built this small side table over the past winter, it's main body is Ash. A large straight grained section of log that my wife and I literally stumbled over a few years back on the shore of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. You never know what what you'll find in the driftwood. I had a freind with a bandsaw mill rip it down and left it to air dry for three years.

The drawer fronts are made from recycled Angelique, again another 'sea-faring' wood species...This was reclaimed from an old barge that sat in Marthas Vineyard for the better part of 100 years!

This table was completely made by hand using only hand tools.

The finish is Tried and True oil/varnish mix.

Reclaimed wood, no power tools used and a food grade all natural oil for finish...what could be any greener than that?

Cheers!
www.tomfidgen.blogspot.com

 


Design or Plan used: My own design - Tom Fidgen
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PSeverin PSeverin writes: I generally like it, but I question how the thrust of the legs intersects with the cloud-lift members under the table top. I think that the legs should hit the fattest part of the cloudlift perhaps stretching the width of fat transition from low to high so that it appears on each side of the legs. Well it's a suggestion. Maybe each of us has our own sense of how the parts should relate.
Posted: 1:15 pm on August 6th

fidgen fidgen writes: The finish I use exclusively is the oil/varnish blend by Tried and True. After spending years with heavy varnishes and toxic resins I've found this product a real pleasure to use.
www.triedandtruewoodfinish.com
Cheers!
Posted: 9:54 pm on May 10th

regisand regisand writes: Tom,

Nice work. I also use reclaimed wood on my projects and believe it adds to the piece.
One quick request. I would like to use a food grade natural finish too. Can you share your finish recipe with us? What type of oil and varnish do you use?
Thank you,
Regis
Posted: 9:20 pm on April 23rd

fidgen fidgen writes: Madison,
I'm actulaly designing a slightly larger version of this piece with the woods reversed! It'll be interesting to see...
And to answer your question, yes, I do sell my work.
Cheers!


Posted: 1:05 pm on April 23rd

Madison2 Madison2 writes: Fun design! It'd be cool to see one done with the wood species reversed. Don't know if you sell your work or not but it might make a nice salable gallery piece.

Madison
Posted: 12:19 pm on April 23rd

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