My maple/teak/cherry writers desk

[ictusbrucks]

Made a writers desk for my wife. Top is hard maple panel with a cherry edge, sitting in a rabbet in the half-lapped teak edge, which sits on the pocket screwed together legs/envelopes.

Legs are about 1.5" with a 3/8" taper. Tapers were cut using a parallel ripping jig I made for my minimax slider. They came out so clean that only one taper required sanding.

This is after only 2 coats of waterlox. The maple really needs a 3rd. The teak looks pretty good with 2 in most spots.

kinda showing the taper jig on the slider

Couldn't help but add a festool green stripe to my slatwall too   It was fun

 

[Jonhilgen]

Looks like a lot of preening might be going on there.  You might need one of these:

http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=69302

Seriously, beautiful table!

Jon

 

[ictusbrucks]

hahaha. a few weeks ago I saw that link and just thought it was cute.... but after doing some hand planing of teak, things got really really dusty, like I was getting tons of really tiny tearout particles, even though the passes felt smooth.

but I dont deny being over meticulous... only way for me to function and not lose everything every 5 seconds

 

[Kev]

The desk is really nice ... and I'm also extremely envious of your shop space.

 

[Ken Nagrod]

Beautiful writers desk and nice shop too!
[thumbs up]

 

[ictusbrucks]

thanks.  Ive only been in this house since around christmas, and I've been filling it with cabinets and shelves and things since.

Here it was a few months ago when I was still doing all the cuts on sawhorses, finishing some cabinets:

I still have a lot of little drawers to make that I am putting off but so far I really like having a hidden away trash can

Forgot to mention for the desk, the curves on the sides of the top were with the the Festool Jigsaw... man that thing cuts nicer than any jigsaw I've used before. A quick pass with 80 rubin on the rotex then a quick 150 and 220 had the edges ready in no time.    The tiny chamfer was done with the OF1400, although it was such a tiny cut that  at first I thought I set the bit too high.

Only thing about the jigsaw was I had to remove the little blear blade guard/dust collection aid thingy. it was making it too hard to accurately follow the line (actually wouldnt have needed the 80 rubin at all except for a little messup, before I removed that plastic piece).