Visually Seeing It Come Together

 I am away on a road trip and will be back in a week or so.

Although I'm still on a road trip vacation, I thought I would burn up some posts I have written in advance so there won't be such a backlog when I get back. Above is the first assembly of the new coffee table proceeding. It was done during a heat wave which does limit the working time of glue and the working time of me physically but as long as I am physically able to get things together and get them together fast enough, the heat shouldn't affect the strength of the glue like it might a finish. 

Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of pictures of this project showing all the various steps and that is probably a good thing being so soon after the altar project. I don't intend for this blog to be a how to manual for woodworking anyway.

So below is a mockup of the coffee table though is still incomplete. I have to round over some edges to make it not so sharp and pointy and I am also missing some decorative elements on the ends that as of writing this, haven't even been started. The end tables that these are in the style of have two vertical walnut pieces and not the three that this one has. They also have a circle made out of walnut that sort of nests into the vertical pieces to give it a more interesting visual look. Those circles I plan on making out of scraps but due to the heat and humidity, I plan on applying finish to much of the coffee table as soon as possible to prevent the pieces from absorbing the moisture which could cause issues further down the road.