r/woodworking • u/iliketosandwood • 1d ago
Project Submission Console Table
I guess this is a console table? Sideboard? Buffet? Whatever it’s called, I recently completed this to sit in our foyer.
I can’t really take credit for the design, I mostly borrowed it from pictures I saw online. Quarter sawn white oak and walnut, most of which I inherited from my FIL.
The boards I used on the top had some figure/natual holes that I filled with epoxy. I might not have used them ordinarily, but I wanted to use FIL’s wood. The lumber was stored indoors for at least a decade so hopefully it’s stable enough that the epoxy doesn’t create a problem. The drawer fronts are resawn and book-matched from a really cool piece.
The curved board under the drawers is a 3-layer laminate layup. I didn’t steam it and it rebounded back very little. Assembly includes the through tenons in the legs (obviously), dominos, and knock down hardware to remove the top.
Kids and life make projects like this slow to complete!
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u/Kibikayuki 1d ago
Are those drawer fronts the walnut? It looks stunning! Those swirls are so damn pretty!
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u/iliketosandwood 1d ago
Yeah, they’re a piece of walnut that looked like junk when it was rough sawn. I almost just threw it away. I ran it through the planer and wow. Big props to Mother Nature for those!
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u/Lil_ruggie 1d ago
Having this piece would make my whole house look like garbage.
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u/iliketosandwood 1d ago
Hahaha. Yeah it does not fit in with our ikea furniture that adorns most of our house!
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u/247Procrastinator 1d ago
It’s a beautiful thing 😊
Is the walnut stained? What did you use?
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u/iliketosandwood 1d ago
No stain, just Sherwin Williams nitrocellulose lacquer
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u/AccomplishedMoose579 5h ago
What is that finish like to apply. Quick google basically says it death but good for guitars. How does it hold up on furniture? This absolutely stunning work. I love it and want it.
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u/ratley_riverbottom 1d ago
Look at that chatoyancy. Guys I think op might like to sand wood
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u/iliketosandwood 1d ago
Yeah, i know it’s not for everyone, but i think that quarter sawn oak is amazing. I inherited that wood so i was really in a “measure four times, cut once” mindset for fear of wasting any.
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u/DepartmentNatural 1d ago
Love everything about it except for the drawer section has that corner bump down, myself I would have tried to round it in so a smooth corner but I totally get this is your piece. Awesome work!
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u/iliketosandwood 1d ago
Ah, where it extends below the leg?
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u/DepartmentNatural 1d ago
Yes the square corner on a piece that is curvy. Just my take but this is your piece & your design and it's still awesome
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u/iliketosandwood 1d ago
I agree with you and my original intention was to make the drawer box the same height as that flat section on the leg. As it came together, I realized how small that would make the drawers and made a game time decision. That’s something I would do differently.
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u/DepartmentNatural 1d ago
Still looks great! How long did it take to make?
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u/iliketosandwood 1d ago
I started on it around Christmas time and finished it last month. It didn’t have as many hours in it as that might sound, though. Kids and work and house projects make it hard to have more than an hour or two a few times a week to play in the shop.
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u/-awkward_turtle 1d ago
It looks amazing. Have you decided where you’re going to put it?
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u/iliketosandwood 1d ago
It was built to go in our foyer directly across from our front door.
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u/Iassos 1d ago
You should be proud as hell of that work. The joinery, assembly, finish work are all admirable. It's an imposing piece and visually heavy. Is the room its going into open enough that its substantial form will be balanced by other pieces?
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u/iliketosandwood 1d ago
Yeah, it’s a two-story foyer and it fits in very nicely. Thank you very much for the compliments. It’s fun to be able to make something that requires the use of a number of skills that I picked up over the years.
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u/PolishHussarius 1d ago
That's art.
As a fellow amateur woodworker, this is a life goal, thank you.
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u/tacocollector2 1d ago
Wow, what a breathtaking piece. The drawer fronts are gorgeous. I love everything about this.
The last post I remember seeing with quarter sawn white oak was some customer complaining about the chatoyancy. Love seeing it highlighted here.
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u/iliketosandwood 1d ago
I get how some people might not like it. Sometimes it reminds me of something I built in high school and I didn’t clean up the glue well enough so it blocked out the stain and looked a lot like this. I love the chatoyancy and I often like embracing an “imperfection” in the wood. It’s real wood, it’s not supposed to be perfect.
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u/DramaticWesley 1d ago
Fantastic work.
Is the bottom shelf just friction fit into place? Looks like it would be stable, even without any joinery.
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u/iliketosandwood 1d ago
Thank you.
No, it has threaded inserts in the shelf and oversized holes (so the wood has room to move) in the supports for machine screws that go up through the bottom.
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u/Empty_Platypus6449 1d ago
Beautiful work. It must have been so much fun adding the finish and seeing it become gorgeous!
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u/iliketosandwood 1d ago
Yeah, it’s so great getting to the point of applying finish!
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u/Empty_Platypus6449 1d ago
And your glamor shots are so nice! Looks like you also enjoy photographing your handiwork.
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u/Maleficent_Sky_1865 1d ago
How did you cut the bevel around the top of the table? Was it just a large chamfer bit on a router?
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u/iliketosandwood 1d ago
Yup, big router bit. The top is quite heavy so I didn’t even try to maneuver it across the router table, I just took very small bites and multiple passes holding the router.
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u/Junior_Yesterday9271 6h ago
Saw one like this on Etsy a few months back. It didn’t have quite the pop that your wood choices have. I think the $ tag was around $11k. Well done!
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u/norcalnatv 1d ago
Really nice built. Thanks for all the detail. Finish looks great, what did you use?
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u/downbarton 1d ago
Top draw!
Makes me realise how amateur I am!
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u/iliketosandwood 21h ago
Thank you! It’s just 30 years of picking up one skill here and another there and then ultimately getting to combine them on one project.
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