Desk Build

Just finished this one. Cherry with mulberry paper screens, Hickory and Maple as secondary woods. Top is solid 5/4.

It took forever to get of the ground on the design as the user had a steel desk from their work that gave a very limited amount of space to work with in wood as they wanted to reproduce their posture etc. A corbel was added to non-drawer side to stiffen the leg and the drawer side leg was mounted to the drawer box via a dowel. It is the thinnest rail I have ever made.

Some lessons learned: Floating tenon joinery is really easy to repair a goof. Make six legs if you need four! The dog will put his snoot in anything.

The shoji screen motif matches a bar made a few years back that is in a near room. The double taper legs are a nod to Arts and Crafts styles blending with the Japanese mulberry paper shoji screen.