OK, except for the black, diamond shaped pulls that well add to the drawers tomorrow, these tables are complete ..... Beautiful job by Will on all the details ... I hope you all enjoyed following the process ... Here are the other posts ... Build a half round table, start to finish ... Click the photos to enlarge them ...Post #1
Post #2
Post #3
Before the finish on the tops and without the drawers
Joinery check on the pattern or on your full size drawing ...
Close up of the joinery ... center drawer border tenons on the left
We sort of winged the drawer joinery as I have found in the past that efficiently dovetailing sides to curving fronts is next to impossible. Once the radius gets below a certain dimension the parts don;t merge together gracefully ... You could do it but there is only so much labor intensive work you can ask your clients to pay for ... If I were doing it for myself .... I would still do it this choice ... You can leave questions on this post in the comments section if you like ... Ill do my best to get back to you on them ... All for now ...
This was a challenging photograph. My camera is not quite good enough to keep the whole 10 feet of it in focus and also the reflections from windows and lights in the somewhat shiny finish were really tough to eliminate .. Best I can do I think ...
A view from below ... The base is bolted together and will completely disassemble for delivery to CT
The picture below is a close up of this section of the table
Close up of the crotch end of the slab ... 
With (coincidentally) ten almost finished ladder back chairs for another client. I first wrote about these chairs in a post last November.
Up to this point in my writing career, I have not spent a lot of time touting other bloggers. but, lately, as part of my mission of sharing information, I have been trying to reserve a little Sunday morning time for reading what other people find interesting enough to write about ... A couple of weeks ago I bumped into George Walkers blog, Design Matters, (a sentiment I certainly share), and its a good one. Very professional, readable, and deep. Lots of information there. Georges approach is centered on what he refers to as Traditional Design, how we should look at it ... what it means ... how to use it in your work ... all good stuff. He is also a contributor to Popular Woodworking Magazine and a frequent speaker on the woodworking lecture circuit. Enjoy ....
The frogs are done their dancing ... but the toads are having a great time still ...
Kits ponds on the left there in the back yard ... aka toad and frog heaven
Sunset off the front porch.
Asparagus from the garden two days later ... The rosebreasted grossbeaks and the orioles are back ... The hummingbirds are in town, but not at our house yet ...
All in, all done ... Sam and Jim wrapped it up today with a little more on site bolting and welding .... Id like to see it in person before the folks move in though Sams pictures came out well considering what a sunny house it is ... I think hes happy it all fit and its all done, and the biuilder came by with the check 
Up the steps 
Top of the steps ...
Ditto ...
Down the steps
Sams secret, super special, leopard skin finish ... very cool
Next !
MDF ... Stands for a lot of things in our shop ... Technically, the trade name is medium density fiberboard ... other possibilities are More Done Faster, More Done For less and More Dust Forever ...
But its a great thing to be able to mockup a chair like the ones above before you build them out of solid wood ... Click the photo above and enlarge it and youll see some lounge chairs. One is solid mahogany and two are painted mdf with sold wood arms ... Can you tell which is the real wood chair? Didnt think so ... Also in that photo, there is a painted mdf sculpture, and a round mahogany table with a painted mdf base that started out as a pool table leg mockup ...
Recently I was asked to make some furniture for a clients guest house. Since they already have several of my solid mahogany lounge chairs, they asked us to create a couch version. I wanted to replace a loveseat in my house that I made from a previous mockup about 10 years ago, so I used their request to explore the concept in mdf .. It seemed to work so well that I suggested the guest house couch be made the same choice. Because of the reduced cost, they ordered two couches and two chairs ... Not a problem for me ... The tapered thing in front, was an idea that occurred to me as a reading lamp and what the hey, well make an mdf one of those too while were at it ... No problem ... You can see the finished lamp and the round mahogany table base better in the top photo.
Trevor added the poplar seat support frames and the upholsterer came by to measure for cushions today ... well start the coloring and finish the solid wood arms tomorrow ...
We also had a request for an unusual mirror frame ... I couldnt figure out how to work around the short grain and narrow frame joinery/clamping issue and since it was going to be gold leafed, hey well try that in mdf too ...
The mdf takes a nice detail for shadows on the 1.5" frame.
The 1/4" mirror pattern was nice and flat too ...
Below were gluing up the stiles and rails using titebond II .. quick and easy, and did I mention flat?...
And lastly in this post on MDF, Ill link to our previous posts on display fixtures and the beauty of mdf for creating those .... Literally, we couldnt do those jobs without it ... Wagathas dog biscuit racks ... made over a hundred of those already .. and our not quite patented Vew-Do balance board racks ....
