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    Episode 2: End Panels with Cutouts

    Author Headshot By Kevin Rodel Feb 18, 2016

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    Episode 2: End Panels with Cutouts

    In this video Workshop, learn about the end panels, with their crisp, geometric cutouts, are the most powerful element in the table’s design. Learn how to create clean cutouts.

    In this video workshop, watch as master furniture maker Kevin Rodel shows you how to build his elegant interpretation on a classic Limbert design. In this project series, you’ll learn how to use efficient building strategies, get gap-free through-tenon joinery, and dress up your furniture with pierced panels.

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    Videos in the Series

    • Introduction: Limbert Inspired Coffee Table

      February 18, 2016

      Kevin Rodel, expert on Arts and Crafts furniture, draws on the style and joinery of a Charles Limbert table and gives them a twist to make his own contemporary coffee…

    • Episode 1: The Tabletop

      February 18, 2016

      Walk through the logic of stock selection for the major parts of the table and then glue up and shape the table’s top.

    • Episode 2: End Panels with Cutouts

      February 18, 2016

      The end panels, with their crisp, geometric cutouts, are the most powerful element in the table’s design. Create clean cutouts by cutting the panel apart and gluing it back together.…

    • Episode 3: Taper the Panels and Add the Legs

      February 18, 2016

      Finish shaping the end panels by tapering them and cutting the curve along the bottom edge. Then make the legs and glue them with splines to the panels.

    • Episode 4: Through-tenoned Shelf

      February 18, 2016

      Build the gridded shelf in sections, with the center section first. Cut it to fit the through-mortises in the end panels. Then you’ll cut the mortises that will accept the…

    • Episode 5: Shelf Gridwork

      February 18, 2016

      The gridwork, a highlight of the design, now gets added to the center section of the shelf. The gridwork may look complex but it is fun to make and not…

    • Two rails at the top of the end panels stiffen the structure

      Episode 6: Dovetailed Rails

      February 18, 2016

      Two rails at the top of the end panels stiffen the structure. You’ll use a combination of hand and power tools to make the twin dovetails that lock them in…

    • Episode 7: Create the Corbels

      February 18, 2016

      Corbels were a common detail in Arts and Crafts furniture, and in this table they add a stylistic flair along with structural solidity. After cutting a tongue on their back…

    • assembly of a dovetailed table

      Episode 8: Assembly

      February 18, 2016

      With its dovetailed upper rails and its through-mortised shelf locked by the corbels, the table’s base is a straightforward, unfussy assembly. Then it’s just a matter of attaching the top—and…

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      June 18, 2020

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    In this video workshop, watch as master furniture maker Kevin Rodel shows you how to build his elegant interpretation on a classic Limbert design. In this project series, you'll learn how to use efficient building strategies, get gap-free through-tenon joinery, and dress up your furniture with pierced panels. Produced by: Jon Binzen; Video and Editing by: Jeff Roos; Purchase the Digital Plan. Purchase the Printed Plan. Check out our collection of articles specifically picked to help with… More about this Video Workshop

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      thopkins | Sep 24, 2016 09:20pm | #1

      Very informative, I've learned a lot in the series.

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      JerinCreek | Dec 06, 2016 06:24pm | #2

      Cutting the end panels, he cuts the top at 2 1/4" from the top hole. But then says to cut the bottoms for a finished length of 15 1/2". Shouldn't that be 15 1/8"?

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      JerinCreek | Dec 07, 2016 08:12pm | #3

      Having difficulty finding wide, well-figured boards, I opted for five boards (with similar color), each three inches wide. It made cutting for the negative spaces easy. I biscuit jointed as done in the video.

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      wbfinewoodworking | Jan 03, 2017 08:29pm | #4

      I have admired Kevin's work for several years. This is a fantastic and well documented build. I'd going to try to adapt this build for a hall table that I need to make.

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      Blue_Rocco | Sep 25, 2019 03:53pm | #5

      I was surprised at the choice of tools that were used... Skill saw, and the way he used his router, when he had a beautiful Jointer and table saw. Cutting everything apart, then glueing it all back together again. And that Scraper, NOT your common card scraper. So many tools used from the building industry and not fine furniture.

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