Simple Hall Table

comments (0) January 14th, 2009 in The Gallery

woytek, member

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Half-blind dovetails for the drawers. 3/4 white oak fronts, maple sides, baltic birch plywood bottoms. The drawer backs were attached with through dovetails, done mostly as an exercise in the technique and as practice with my new jig.

Drawer fronts were sliced from the front apron. The flush-fit drawers still needed a little shimming to even-up the gaps, which had not yet been done in this photo.

Photo: Jonathan Woytek

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This is a small hall table that I built for our home. We have a Victorian built in the 1890's. We had an old console radio that served as a hall table that "came with the house." While there is a lot of detailed woodwork around the house, some of the original features were pretty utilitarian. I designed this table after reading some books on middle-class furniture and Shaker furniture, and the design ends up combining some of those features and design elements from extant woodwork in the house. The rails and legs are joined with mortise and tenon joints, and the drawers have half-blind dovetails for the fronts and full dovetails for the backs. The table is built entirely out of white oak, with the exception of the maple drawer sides and backs and the birch plywood drawer bottoms. The finish is a few coats of Watco medium walnut Danish oil, wet sanded after each, and an application of paste wax because I liked the resulting sheen. The drawers slide on simple runners and kickers installed between the front and rear aprons.

Design or Plan used: My own design

posted in: The Gallery, table, period interpretation, dovetails, tenons, white oak, shaker, oil, beading

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