Coffee table

[zoki4691]

I would like to make a living room table oak, low, with essential structure, and with "simple" swallowtail sticks.
As I do not want a longitudinal reinforcement, it's important to make a pretty good crash.

 

[Cordy]

That coffee table is fantastic Zoki

Is it your own design ?

 

[custard]

Very cool design Zoki.

Are the four components just glued together, or is there some hidden joinery?

It must be difficult to form the lug on the top of the legs with the required precision. I'd prefer the design if the legs were slightly angled, but I guess that would make the lug even harder to form.

 

[zoki4691]

That coffee table is fantastic Zoki

Is it your own design ?

No, it's not my design. I copied it :x

Only that mine is not painted but of two different essences. Plan and made of Coumaru and legs in Rovere of Slavonia

 

[zoki4691]

Very cool design Zoki.

Are the four components just glued together, or is there some hidden joinery?

It must be difficult to form the lug on the top of the legs with the required precision. I'd prefer the design if the legs were slightly angled, but I guess that would make the lug even harder to form.

The four of the table are not unclouded and there is no ferment that holds them together. Everything made by swallowtail. (Very difficult to do fine)
Incorporated on the Leigh D4 Pro

 

[rafezetter]

umm - I'm having a little trouble following, google translate isn't that good - but the design is lovely.

 

[JSW]

If I understand it correctly, the two halves of the top are a pressure fit over a dovetailed tenon in the legs? Very precise indeed.

 

[woodbrains]

Hello,

Sliding dovetails, both leaves of the top slide horizontally onto the leg section. The exposed tenon may or may not be a sliding dovetail too.

Mike.

 

[dzj]

Hello,

Sliding dovetails, both leaves of the top slide horizontally onto the leg section. The exposed tenon may or may not be a sliding dovetail too.

Mike.

Yes, that was my guess also.
I'm not sure where the DT jig fits in all this.
Interestingly the original version utilizes a combination of a dowel and some kind of
mortised locking mechanism.

 

[woodbrains]

Hello,

Sliding dovetails, both leaves of the top slide horizontally onto the leg section. The exposed tenon may or may not be a sliding dovetail too.

Mike.

Yes, that was my guess also.
I'm not sure where the DT jig fits in all this.
Interestingly the original version utilizes a combination of a dowel and some kind of
mortised locking mechanism.

Hello,

The Leigh jig can be set up to make sliding dovetails, oddly enough.

Mike.

 

[zoki4691]

Hello,

Sliding dovetails, both leaves of the top slide horizontally onto the leg section. The exposed tenon may or may not be a sliding dovetail too.

Mike.

Yes, that was my guess also.
I'm not sure where the DT jig fits in all this.
Interestingly the original version utilizes a combination of a dowel and some kind of
mortised locking mechanism.

Hello,



The Leigh jig can be set up to make sliding dovetails, oddly enough.

Mike.

strangely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ-axQ8HApo