The desk is made of solid African padauk and hard maple. In the joints pins are router cut and tails are hand cut. Breadboards are tenoned and glued only in the middle to allow the top to expand. The finish is 3 coats of wipe-on polyurethane. Legs can be detached for transportation.
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Comments
Nice clean look. Great dovetails.
I like the fact that you went breadboard and solid rather than mitered and vineered ply. I might have to build one of these for myself.
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