Bedside Table Assembly

This week I routered the channels for the drawer runners to slide through and began to join the top of the bedside table together. Like in the tall chest of drawers I made in first term, I used dowels to join it as it prevents the wood from moving.

Then I moved onto the legs, they were tricky to assemble as the legs taper and this meant that supports (skirt) between them had to be angled to accommodate this. The angle was hard to cut accurately on the band saw so I finished cutting the tenon out with a chisel.

I angled the feet of the legs and also kept the wood the same thickness of 15mm like the chest of drawers to give a sense of continuity between my pieces.