Where Have You Been? Watcha Bin Doin' ..........

Holy macaroons Batman, doesn't the time fly when you are busy.
A short potted history for between my last post and this one -

• house painting - outside
• grandkids
• renovations and repairs to the main bedroom and walk in robe
• house painting - inside
• travel
• grandkids 
• house painting - outside
• re-building with my son, his garage
• travel
• grandkids
• house painting - outside
• uke
• singing
• travel
• Hastings Woodworkers Guild

Where was I up to with those projects....................
The ukulele hasn't moved from its last known location and condition - still on the "to get finished" list.

I have begun a hall table for our Guild exhibition in a month and will document it here.

Building a Hall Table - Part 1

My good friend Terry gave me a couple of slabs of camphor laurel that he no longer needed, and I decided that one of them would contain enough timber for a hall table.
I laid it out and cut it before I thought to take a picture.
Here is what's left of the slab - not very impressive is it?

Here is a hint of its lovely colour:

Here's what it dresses like to reveal the multi coloured grain

I cut out the legs and the side rails and glued them in using mortice and tenon joints:

Here's a close up of the joint showing the completed side rail tenon in its mortice as well as the mortice for the front rail:

Here are all four legs with both side rails glued in place:

The front and back rails will have a strengthening cross piece let into housings.  Here I am cutting them with a tenon saw before chiseling out the waste.

Here is the completed cross member sitting in its housing as a trial fit:

Finally with all pieces ready here is a trial fit of front and back rails before glue up:

After glue up I'll work on the table-top.
Happy shavings to all
Tom