Round Glass Coffee Table

I designed and built this coffee table while I was a student at Inside Passage School of Fine Cabinetmaking. In total, I’ve made four of these tables, one in Ash, one in Bubinga, one in Black Cherry and one in Black Walnut.

The legs and stretchers in this table are made using bent laminations. The legs are formed using 10 tapered laminations, each tapering from 3.7 mm at one end to 2.5 mm at the other end, for a total thickness of 37 mm at the bottom of the leg and 25 mm at the top of the leg. The stretchers are formed using 6 laminations, each being 3 mm thick, for a total thickness of 18 mm.

The table is 40″ diameter x 17″ high, and is finished with “Triple-Mix” wipe-on finish, which is composed of equal parts Tung Oil, Waterlox and Paint Thinner.

This joinery in this table was featured in an article I wrote called Tricky Tenons, which was published in the June/July 2011 issue of Canadian Woodworking Magazine.