bedside table

McCanon writes: Nice....nice....nice! I'm glad you included the mahogany racing stripes. I've made 7 tables and I've used this technique on all of them. Mostly for decoration but on a cherry wood dining table the bread board ends were end grain covers. 4 other tables have these strips of wood on the tops' edge and also in the center of the top. I did up two bedside tables with drawers. A walnut and zebra wood mix. The top was edged in walnut and to fill the zebra wood grain I applied a mix of linseed oil and turpentine....rubbed it on....let is set a few mins....then hit it with the orbital sander...while still wet. A great grain fill happened and the slight amount of walnut sanding dust darkened the zebra a tad. A high gloss finish really did it. Post your next work. Posted: 1:28 pm on November 13th

GarageWoodworks writes: Nice table! Regarding the use of breadboard ends, they are normally used to prevent cupping contrary to what is stated below. They way you have the breadboard attached it would not aide in preventing this, however I still think it adds visual interest. Posted: 11:04 am on November 13th

danfromsaskatoon writes: pickydicky is right on the bb end but a waste of time it is not, i like mixing boards, but i would have added a center strip to balance the top, all in all nice piece much nicer then my first, think i would have kept the grain on the apron flowing upwards and another thing it wouldnt be to hard to put a bb end on know again nice piece dan Posted: 10:46 am on November 11th

pickydicky writes: nice work for a 1st try but you should know that the purpose of breadboards is to hide the expansion/contraction across the width and as an added plus conceal the end grain - breadboards as you put them are not only silly but a complete waste of your time Posted: 4:52 pm on November 10th