My son loves to play computer games, and is reluctant to do his homework.  He needed a place to do both tasks, however, so I designed and built this arts and crafts influenced desk from white oak.  The legs were cut from an 8/4 board.  The front apron rail is quartersawn and has a nice ray fleck figure.  The drawer front is cut from the apron rail so the grain match is continuous.  The drawer is constructed with hand cut dovetails. The desk has two features I never tried before–a breadboard end top and through mortise and tenon joints on the stretcher rail on the bottom.  My son chose the stain color (he initialy wanted black stain, which I thought would look cool, but he found a medium stain color he liked better) and is topped by three coats of wipe on poly.  This was a satisfying build that challenged me and turned out well.  

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