Shadow Box coffee table - Ping Han

Swingman wrote in news:9eWdnUiaPpWRAs3NnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

I have the wood for it, I think (I thought I had ordered some of the quartersawn white oak as 2x4, but it came all 4/4 thick, so I probably will have to glue up the legs). The workshop/basement has been a terrible mess because I had insulating done in the attic and around the basement where the foundation meets the framed walls. Things are slowly getting into some kind of order ...

As practice, I am close to finishing up a "sofa table" for behind our sofa, in the same style, but higher, narrower and longer. That is being made from recycled pine and/or fir. It will NOT have a shelf close under the glass top.

I am still not quite 100% recovered from this horribly bad bout of whooping cough, so I am doing things really slow.

All that explanation before I ask, what can I help with?

Nothing really, just curious and checking to see if you had made any progress on perfecting that design. If I do this job, there will be a hinged apron for access, and the box depth itself will be close to 5", which will change things around quiet a bit from the original.

I'm envious of your working on a sofa table ... my long planned sofa table keeps getting put on the back burner. Did buy the leg stock (1 3/4 x 1 3/4) recently, but got no further than that. But, I did make an animated video of my design some months back just for grins, so far it's as far as I've ever gotten on owning an actual sofa table :

"Swingman" wrote

it keeps moving around like that? ;)

Swingman wrote in news:pMudnc3YA6Xhn8zNnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Neat!! Mine won't have the drawers, and the upper aprons/rails are 2" wide only. The lower rails are 3". And mine will have a shelf between the lower rails, resting on a cleat, as in the original design from the magazine. I am putting it together with dominos, so there won't be through tenons. The top will be glass in a frame. I was fighting that frame, because the glass kept either being squeezed or too loose. Now I sort of gave up, and it will be loose in the shalow rabbet formed by the mitered frame. I should have used my edgerouter to clean up the rabbet when it was just a bit too tight. Fooling with that soft pine is a pain.

I like the looks of the corbels (?). Are they functional, or decorative?

Strictly decorative ... the "bling" of the Stickley era. When I take the time to make them, I make many more than I need so I always have some around. I've got a stash of corbels in red oak, quarter sawn white oak, and maple.

The corbels on the Stickley factory sofa table I used as the basis for the design has some rather large ones that I chose not to copy:

On 9/13/2012 4:09 AM, Swingman wrote: ...

Why, Thank You!

Here, nailed it down for you ... decided to go ahead and start an album in hopes it will provide the impetus/opportunity to get the actual fabrication started:

-- Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. -- George Lois

by Harvey Ellis. I'm looking forward to doing some inlay wotk on the CNC router, which I haven't had time to even touch in weeks. But extremely-freakin'-busy is good. Must stock up for cold, wet winter.

-- Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. -- George Lois

Larry Jaques wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

What about pictures? (I need to make some soon too ...)

dpb wrote in news:k2sel2$rg8$ snipped-for-privacy@speranza.aioe.org:

Indeed ...

Pics of the build are here:

I plan to make carvings from photos, too, if that's what you were asking.

-- Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. -- George Lois

Larry Jaques wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com: