Mission end table

festup

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Here's a mission end table I just completed. I used my entire Festool fleet at some point. I had some tearout in the top from the planer. The Rotex 150 w/80 grit did a great job of removing it and kept it nice and flat. It's all Domino joinery. The through tenons are fake. (Don't tell Gustav Stickley...) The finish is Transtint dye/shellac/General Finishes gel stain/shellac/4 coats of Target EM6000 satin lacquer sprayed by HVLP.

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Absolutely gorgeous. I really like the grain on every part of the table. Great job
 
Lots of nice details.  Great job!

Are the spindles dominoed with the smallest dominoes?

neil
 
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Not being from NA, what wood did you use?  Oak?

Fantastic result.
 
neilc said:
Lots of nice details.  Great job!

Are the spindles dominoed with the smallest dominoes?

neil

No, they're too small for dominoes. I used mortise and tenon.
 
Untidy Shop said:
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Not being from NA, what wood did you use?  Oak?

Fantastic result.

Untidy, it's quartersawn white oak. Grows in south central US. If you Google it, you'll see pics of how they cut the log to expose the fleck. Very nice to work with.
 
Festup -- that is a really, really nice piece!  Great job and thanks for posting.  I like the finish too...right amount of sheen. 

Scot
 
WOW - nice job! Did you work from someone's plans or make your own?
 
wow said:
WOW - nice job! Did you work from someone's plans or make your own?
wow, I kinda based it on a Stickley 89-746 end table, but added a drawer. I saw one in the Denver Stickley store and snuck a few measurements. :) I especially wanted to get the korbels proportioned correctly.
 
That's a handsome  piece of furniture thanks 4 sharing

well deserving of a few more pictures if you can
 
Beautiful job .. I really like the colour contrast on the drawer and always good to know how a piece is finished.
 
festup said:
wow said:
WOW - nice job! Did you work from someone's plans or make your own?
wow, I kinda based it on a Stickley 89-746 end table, but added a drawer. I saw one in the Denver Stickley store and snuck a few measurements. :) I especially wanted to get the korbels proportioned correctly.

Festup, you nailed it!!!  Well done!!!  That is very well proportioned. 

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festup said:
The finish is Transtint dye/shellac/General Finishes gel stain/shellac/4 coats of Target EM6000 satin lacquer sprayed by HVLP.

Great looking piece. I really like that drawer. What is the runner?
The medullary rays in the oak are very clear.
I am not crazy about the color but I know it's hard to get an accurate color balance with some cameras.
Tim
 
Tim Raleigh said:
festup said:
The finish is Transtint dye/shellac/General Finishes gel stain/shellac/4 coats of Target EM6000 satin lacquer sprayed by HVLP.

Great looking piece. I really like that drawer. What is the runner?
The medullary rays in the oak are very clear.
I am not crazy about the color but I know it's hard to get an accurate color balance with some cameras.
Tim

Tim,

Yeah, color is hard to discern from a picture. It took many tests/samples to get the right dye/stain combo to what we liked. I'm going to build 6 or 7 various pieces for our house, so I took time to obsess over the final color. Had to document every dye mixture along the way. The runners are 3/8" dadoes (routered on the CMS) in the drawer sides, and complementary strips dadoed in the frame side. There's also a runner on the bottom to prevent binding.
 
Beautiful!!  Beautiful in every aspect.  I too, love the contrasting drawer and the figure in the wood is fabulous!  Absolutely love white oak.  It's probably my personal favorite wood to work with.  Thanks very much for sharing this!
 
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