Sewing Table: All the Pieces

Here you can see all the individual pieces that make up the sewing table.  This first table is just about finished, I still want to put some beeswax on it once the Danish oil has properly cured and I need to drill two tiny slots in the table for the hinges of the tabletop.

One of the last pieces of woodworking I needed to do on this piece was to finish the tabletop on top of the screen. Here the screen is in the down position, I deliberately positioned the inlay so as to help disguise the lines of the cutout for the screen.

The screen pulled up, getting the screen to slide but also stay up where you want it was a very fine line of sanding it either too thin and slipping down or leave it too thick and getting stuck. It was the easiest to make it oversize and then refine it, the slots in the back of each table were just slightly different even though it was cut with the same cutter.

View from the back with the tabletop raised. The brass candlestick was made by Bill Robertson.

The front from the right side and.......

the front from the left side.

I am looking forward to see the petit point that my four clients are going to put into their screens, hopefully they will give me photos to post here in a few months.

Elga

PS: You can see the original table that I copied here, click on the photo to see a larger view.