(Finally) Bedside tables

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Wabiloo

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It took me a year (partly because I moved house and got married during that time), but I've now finished my pair of tulipwood bedside tables!
 

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That's a great design, looks really good. Quite large torsional forces with the drawer though?
 
Yes, probably so. It's tulipwood so not massively heavy however. The drawer itself is very light (and I don't fill it with lead either ;)

I initially thought of adding a back to help with the weight of the drawer. However, with the way I set the dovetails (with the tails in the horizontal plane), the tightness of the dovetail joints do a lot of the work of keeping things horizontal. That and very good glue.
I do anticipate that with time, things will start loosening and sagging. I could always add a back or a support then...
 
Great to see someone really taking a chance with their designs.

Lot of small details to really like too. The drawer pulls are dead right, with the chamfer and dovetail shape picking up design cues from the drawer box.

=D>
 
Well, thanks for the compliment! I spent days thinking about the drawer pulls in particular, and am really chuffed with the result.
 
I really like those. Out of the ordinary and different.
Do you have any plans for feet or will they sit flat on the floor?
Wabiloo":389drzrc said:
I do anticipate that with time, things will start loosening and sagging....
Not just furniture either!
 
I had designed those for our previous house which has short pile carpet. I was then going to add feet. However, I couldn't figure out a foot design that I felt would work for it.
We then moved house and the new bedroom has much thicker pile, and therefore I decided that no foot was good enough - as anything subtle would disappear in the pile anyway and mark it.
 
I would have been tempted to fit metal spikes (like you use for the bottom of speaker stands) to the bottom to just lift it clear of the carpet so it looks like it’s floating a few mm above the carpet and shows off the full beauty of the design. I really like the style but not keen on the tulipwood, if these were in maple and walnut they would be the right up my street. Brilliant work all the same
 

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