Yesterday I went to the second session of the Woodworking Workshop I posted about earlier with my dad. This time instead of just assembling something we actually got to make something. We both made night tables out of cherrywood. The picture below is a shaker style night table very similar to the ones we built but it is made of walnut instead of cherry.
To make this table we first needed to square out a piece of air dried lumber. If you would like to learn more about squaring stock read this. After squaring our stock we had to glue our three pieces to make the top of our table. To create the skirt of our table we cut four tenons into the pieces of the skirt and four mortises into the legs. This ensured we had a strong joint so the table wouldn't fall apart. After fully assembling it we applied a layer of tung oil to the entire piece.
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