I haven't really been WIP'ing any of my projects for awhile but now we have a new home I can catch up on a few in the back log. I did this about a year ago now but it's one of my favorite pieces in terms of the finished outcome. I'm still not sure if I love the design or not, it's a nearly identical replica of a piece John Lewis sell called the Treviso desk. I started with a SU model but don't have a picture, was very helpful for this project as it involves some complex angles.
Some of the wood:
Laying up:
Using the TS55 to true and edge, once done with the TS55 I then use the planer and finally a plane before jointing. It's a pretty quick process as the TS55 does the majority of the work.
Once glued up trimmed to square:
A very light sanding a little smoothing plane to get the top flat.
Then I ran a dado around the front 3 sides of the desk with the router and fence:
And into this the top wrapping pieces. These are thicker to give the top the thick look. Mitred with the TS55:
Dry fit:
The mitres were dominoed with a single 10mm domino, and then the front piece glued on it's own.
Then one side at a time:
Leaving a nice mitred corner:
The other side about to go on:
Next the corners needed to be rounded:
A little more planing, scraping and sanding a the top is ready. Very important that this was dead flat for the top hutch to go on later:
Picking the wood for the hutch, I wanted it to be all made from the same piece so the grain flows around:
The jet doing all the hard work for me once I'd glued the two pieces together:
Then the tricky bit, mitring the hutch all from the one piece:
Getting there:
First test of the hutch on the desktop, 5mm dominos along the mitres:
Dominos to attach the dividers:
Dividers and back panel in:
Cutting the detail into the top with the aid of a plunge cut and a router jig to do the curves:
Then the whole lot slots down onto the top:
At some point I grooved the top for the back panel to slot into and the inside of the hutch was also grooved.
The original had legs that were neatly housed into the edge. I began by replicating this (I seem to have no pictures of making the legs, it was a lot of plane and sanding work to get the curves and angles in):
But it quickly became apparent to me that this wasn't going to be very sturdy so I decided to do a through leg and wedge with contrasts of walnut. I began by cutting through for just the leg:
Then marking and cutting out extra space for the walnut wedges.
Extremely strong, now the tops need trimming. I just hand sawed these off:
I then decided I wanted the walnut to be inside of the leg as well so it appeared to wrap all the way around and would really help to neated the join. Routed and chiseled out a channel:
Infill in and a little water to test what oil will look like:
Oiled:
I seemed to miss a few pictures as I don't have any of the back legs or under table framework, it wasn't very exciting I guess! They are taped legs in two dimensions, one cut with machinery and the other chamfer done by hand.
Starting work on the two little drawers:
Draw in it's home:
And then with the finish barely dry it was off to the new owner: