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That's Really Nice - Great Job!

Hank Knight from SC

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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Mitch, that's really nice looking, the right balance of delicate but strong.

Pam

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Ernie Miller

>Nice work Who says you need a big shop!

More pics and Shop shots, please...

Martin from Granbury

>That table's been on my list for a long time, I think you did a wonderful job.

How about a few more pics, and a submission to "shop shots" for all of the Shaker fans on the forum? I think it is worthy.

Very nice job.

Martin, remove the "5" for correct email.

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Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

>Nice job! My hat is off to folks who woodwork in places like urban apartments. But regardless of the nature of your "shop" you did a fine job.

Tommy

Size of shop vs. size of woodworking skill

Jim Reed @ Tallahassee

>Size of skill wins every time. Great job

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William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Looking forward to more photos.

Do the legs taper more strongly as they approach the floor, or is that just an effect of the camera lens (barrel distortion)?

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daleM in St. Albert, AB

>I was looking at a very similar table built by Garrett Hack in the "In the Shaker Style" book just last night. I don't have the book in front of me.

I would very much like to see pictures of the carcass without the drawers in it. Mainly to see how you made the slides and dividers?

And to see how everything is joined to the legs.

While you're at it maybe you could include some full size drawings as well. (just joking :)

daleM

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Mitch from NYC

>Dale,

I definitely looked at Garret Hack's example in the book, "In the Shaker Style." I also looked at a book of Shaker furniture (the title escapes me at the moment). I changed the sizing and some of the structural elements to what I thought I could do and what seemed to make sense. Hack had the front rails joined to the front legs with a single tenon. I was afraid that using the table would cause racking that might compromise a single tenon, so I used double tenons in the lower and middle rails. I used one dovetail to join the top rail to the front legs where Hack used a wider rail with one dovetail into the leg and another one into the top of the side apron. I was afraid the top rail might eventually split, so I just used the one dovetail. I hope that makes sense. I'll post some more pictures later on.

Thanks,

Mitch

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Mitch from NYC

>Nope, it's one continuous taper down to the floor. The lighting and the bad color contrast are causing the photo to do some funky tricks. Also, there is some tiger figure on the legs that might also be messing with the image.

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William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>I was afraid the top rail might eventually split

If it does split, it doesn't matter a whole lot. You've still got a rail holding the top of the legs together, and another rail holding the sides together at the front. If you are afraid of the rail splitting, it would do so because it shrank across it's width and pressure from the back face of the leg would split it. The leg, made of the same wood, and seasoned to the same MC, should shrink and expand at the same rate, so there shouldn't be a problem. If you're still worried, just relieve that surface a smidgen, so there's a bit of a gap between the rail and the back of the leg.

very pretty

bill tindall

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Very nice work!

Jonathan Kaplan (OR)

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dave jeske

>Mitch,

WOW! it looks great!! I'm checking out your additional pictures for the construction details. Did you do a step by step construction feature/article for submission to FWW or PWW?

Glad the knobs fit :)

Dave

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GolfSteve in Calgary

>Looks great, Mitch. I've got that same book by Garrett Hack and that table has been on my "to do" list for a while. It's a beautiful design.