the commission for this piece came to me from one of my interior designer clients … she sent me a photo of a table similar to this saying that the ‘size was wrong, the glass was too thin, and the support elements were too heavy for the room’ …. it looked pretty easy to me at first glance, until i made my first quarter size model. that was close and then i went on to the half size, but the angles off the saw were wrong and needed adjustment. and the points stuck out past the edges of the glass on top. i was getting a little frustrated until one of my guys took the ball from me and ran with it while i went off to the office, figuring out the key joinery and assembly detail on his own … totally easy and totally rigid and easy to understand once you see it … i could put the key pictures up here, but it’s a good exercise to ponder the construction for a minute and see what you come up with … one picture i don’t have shows the jig we made to hold the legs on their 45 degree axis to cut the angles on the chop saw, which was the key to getting the compound angles perfect off the saw. that and a little math …. there are key hints to the joinery in the 2nd and last pictures, but if you don’t get it, you can see the simple solution here …

Launch Gallery