Vintage dining table and chairs in progress

December 3, 2015
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For the kitchen, I am using two Arjen Spinhoven Arts & Crafts chair kits. I like that fellow blogger Monique put the back on upside down and ended up with a better design than the original. :D So, I am doing the same. I've sanded the laser cut edges to remove the brown residue and to round off the edges.

The table is an attempt at a reproduction of a Heywood-Wakefield Cliff House table. Mine is a bit skinnier than the original near the bottom. Also, in real life woodworking, you would make each of the legs from two pieces since the grain goes only one direction and the feet would be too breakable on the cross grain. I cut the curved fronts on the scroll saw, taping the wood layers together. I then cut the backs manually.

I used 1/16" thick wood for the legs since my purchased wood circle top was also thin, but 3/32" thick wood might have been better for both. They are very delicate, and perhaps when I have more time, I will redo it the right way though I do love it as is.

The next challenge will be getting the mdf chairs and the wood table the same color.