A beautiful Shaker-style console table packed with new techniques and skills

Small tables are wonderful skill-building projects, where new skills are acquired, and existing skills are reinforced.  Small tables also provide ample opportunity to dial up the detailing to express one’s own design creativity.

In this class,  you will build a side table with tapered, splayed legs, and an under beveled tabletop.  You will also explore different ways of dressing up your table with inlay, veneer, and cock beading.

This is a hybrid class where you will use power tools for joinery and preliminary milling and shaping, and hand tools to accurately and precisely do the final shaping and surface preparation of all table parts.

There are lots of opportunities to learn new skills  in this compact project and some of the key learning points include:

• • Milling mortise and tenon joinery.
  • Tapering legs with a bandsaw and hand planes (no tapering jig).
  • Shaping the under bevels on the tabletop with hand planes.
  • Making and using shop sawn veneer for decorative effect.
  • Working with inlay/stringing and other decorative elements.

  Skill Level:  Participants should be comfortable at using machinery to mill parts true (flat and square), and have a general understanding of basic wood joinery.  Because this class emphasizes hand tool use some basic level of use/knowledge is recommended.  Not sure?  Give us a call at 813 223 3490 and talk to Kate Swann.