Woodworker: Adrian FerrazzuttiThere was plenty of math involved in this coopered ash and wenge coffee table (35-in. dia. by 16-in. tall). The staves taper in width and in thickness, both above and below the joint. After figuring out the angle for the joint, Ferrazzutti made a jig to hold the laminations at that angle and then ran one side of each stave past a shaper. Then he flipped each lamination on the jig and ran the other side through. Only a few of the joints needed some handplane work to change the angle slightly as the glue-up progressed. For the glue-up, Ferrazzutti mounted a center column on an MDF base with a circle drawn on it to represent the glass and registration blocks for locating the staves. He glued up pairs of staves into sets of four, fours into halves, and the halves into a whole. The glass is held in place with custom aluminum clips.

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