Being the first piece of furniture I had ever built, this was a nice challenge.
Patterned after the “Empire” style with scrolled feet and base, and featuring a veneered elliptical apron, it stands 20″ tall and is 40″ long X 24″ wide. Built entirely out of Sapele, a West African wood similar to Mahogany.

Similar to my eyebrow dormer project, this started off by creating a full size ellipse on MDF using a piece of string and nails until a pleasing shape emerged with the length and width I desired. This pattern was then cut out and duplicated several times to have a thick enough form to wrap the apron around for glue-up.

The turnings are fairly straightforward, as are the feet. The bottom piece was established by free-handing a drawing of one quadrant, then tracing that onto the four corners and cutting it out.

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