Fine Fettling

Here are some photos of the finished cherry bedside table. I am quite pleased with the finished table and I hope the new owner enjoys it for years to come. The inlay and banding around the drawer were a bit challenging with the use of wenge, which I find very hard or brittle and [...]

I always liked the idea of shooting boards, allowing one to shave off thousandths of an inch with a finely fettled hand plane (Lie-Nielsen 5 1/2 bench plane) to get just that right fit. For making the wenge inlays with miters I relied on some thoughts of David Charlesworth in his books(Furniture making techniques [...]

This is my first series of posts and I will keep things simple by recording and commenting on the design and construction of a commission for a set of bedside tables. I have made a number of pieces for this family in the past and most recently a queen size bed in cherry [...]