Woodworker's Journal 2011-35-1, страница 45

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the center. At first, I thought the cherry accent was just going to be a narrow strip to add a touch of color I also planned to use two cherry wedges in the exposed through tenons on the legs as additional accents. But. after looking at Jeffs CAD drawings of the table, it occurred to me that a 3/4" x 3/4" accent strip, turned 45^a to the plane of the top, might bring some visual interest to the piece. 1 blame this kind of thinking on master woodworker lan Kirby, who has influenced my design sensibilities over the years (sec page 30). A tweak of the CAD drawing convinced me I was right, and my coworkers agreed. With tnose choices made, it was time to start making sawdust.

One quick word about wenge. I had never used this species of wood before this project. I found it to be a very dense hardwood that cuts, glues and finishes well. One detail that 1 learned about wenge the hard way is that it splinters, very easily, on the edges. While I didn't find this to be a problem in general, when 1 got to chopping the through mortises on the legs, it gave me fits. 1 needed to resize the openings and carefully insert the tenons to avoid breaking out the edges of the openings.

Wenge is a dark wood with subtle red highlights. To start the project, the author selected sections from a large and wide board to compose the table top.