Woodworker's Journal 2004 Summer, страница 40

Surprisingly pleasing to the eye, Spanish cedar grows just about everywhere in South and Central America. While it's not a true cedar (in fact, it's a hardwood), it does have its own distinctive fragrance, durability and easy working characteristics.

Long ago, I learned the importance of working to a storyboard when making circular shaped projects. The idea is to lay out the elements of your project on a piece of sheet stock, which then serves as your workbench. I recommend using a storyboard on this project. Get started by shaping a piece of

By John English

particleboard to accommodate a 53"m" diameter circle, which is the size of your tabletop. Follow the Storyboard Layout in the Pinup Shop Drawings, starting on page 39, and mark pencil lines where all the elements of the tabletop will lie. You can draw the circles with a simple homemade compass made by driving a 4d finish

nail into one end of a stick and attaching a pencil to the other end with a small C-clamp.

Dry Bending the Apron

The apron is the heart of this table and the element to which almost all other parts are attached. By building it first, you deal with the most challenging

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