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263358 Derek Cohen <derekcohen@i...> 2017‑09‑22 Re: Concern for the list
Hi Joseph

I hope that you do not mind my replying to you via the link to The Porch. I have
snipped out the personal stuff.

First and most importantly of all, thank you for your kind words. There are a
bunch of us that remember not only the posts of a dozen or more years ago, but
have also chatted to each other on other woodworking forums. We are like family.

Somehow the Porch has lived on, and with antiquated technology … perhaps it is
because of the antiquated technology? Perhaps we old farts gained more than we
appreciate through loving hand tools? We are still here.

So OK - here is the last build of mine, completed a few months ago. I spent the
first half of this year burning electrons while re-building the kitchen. This
left me three weekends free before the Perth Wood Show, where there is an annual
furnitire building competition. I usually enter a piece to support my club
members.

Three weekends is not much time, and so I chose to build a piece that I had been
thinking about for several months. This meant that the design was done, and all
I had to do was cut out the pieces and glue it together. It was a little more
complicated than that - a sofa table with bowed front and back aprons, the
sexiest curved legs (the stuff of dreams), and a hidden drawer (because every
piece of furniture must have a hidden drawer). The base is USA Hard Maple (which
was used to build the kitchen), and the top is a piece of absolutely stunning
West Australian Sheoak.

There is a blow-by-blow record of the build on my website, and I will provide
the link at the end, but for those wanting to just see the end result …

The top:

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/SofaTableAllTheWayToCompletion_h
tml_m56ead4c1.jpg">http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/SofaTableAllTheWayToCo
mpletion_html_m56ead4c1.jpg

From the front …

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/SofaTableAllTheWayToCompletion_h
tml_5056b9fa.jpg">http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/SofaTableAllTheWayToCom
pletion_html_5056b9fa.jpg

Here is a side elevation of the shaped ends …

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/SofaTableAllTheWayToCompletion_h
tml_m57c67dd8.jpg">http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/SofaTableAllTheWayToCo
mpletion_html_m57c67dd8.jpg

And the hidden drawer (this is locked with a Quaker lock, and behind it is
another hidden drawer) …

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/SofaTableAllTheWayToCompletion_h
tml_64ddae1e.jpg">http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/SofaTableAllTheWayToCom
pletion_html_64ddae1e.jpg


Scan down this index page ..  http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/in
dex.html">http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/index.html  ..

.. and you will find the kitchen build as well as the Sofa Table build.



Regards from Perth

Derek

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