We rebuilt an old house and didn’t have enough tables so I built several using material I had left over from other work.
I baked the purpleheart legs and top of these tables in the oven at 350°F to brighten their color.
This table has a maple top and wenge legs.
The top of this spalted maple table had a lot character so I left it thick and made heavy legs to support it.
These photos show the two edges of a table I made from a rough piece of spalted maple. One edge shows the grain patterns from a branch that grew from the trunk. The other edge is where the trunk split. The legs are cocobolo.
Here are two more tables made from a rough edge maple board. The legs are bloodwood.
This maple bench stands on aluminum legs I saved from a broken coffee table I found years ago.
Tapering Fixture
I tapered the legs using a fixture holder I built for a my table saw. The leg is held between adjustable centers and uses clamped blocks to hold the blank at different angles, depending the number of facets wanted.
I connected my dust collector to a hood I built that completely encloses the top of the blade. My air quality monitor readings barely budged when I made the cuts.
I repurposed the adjustable center holders to use in the duplicating pattern holder I built for making tuning pegs.