ZVBWoodworks

The dining table benches are complete! I really feel like I leveled up the quality of my work with this one. I definitely pushed my limits.

Upholstery is a new skill for me. I’ve only done this and the 🍄 stool. It took me all week to get it right. I think I’ll stick to wood for a while 😅

Here’s a list of names I use when I think of these benches:
EB2U
Sk8 Bench v2
Benchie Bencherson II




@ Los Angeles, California

I made this solid ash adjustable easel, so and I could do some painting. Swipe to the last pic to see it side by side with the prototype. This is inspired by a fairly classic easel design. I love the way it folds down flat.



@ Los Angeles, California

This pizza peel looking thing became the rug be**er. Swipe to see how it came together.
The first shot is all the veneers laid out before gluing. I wanted to make it three laters to make it stronger, and overlap any glue seams.
You can see in the middle layer the arrangement of the veneers is slightly different in the second picture. For very thin panels, tape, glue, and gravity is enough for a good glueup.
You can see in the second pic the layers getting glued together. This is after running each layer through the drum sander to make them even thicknesses. I used cauls to get even pressure in the middle.
After shaping and sanding the core, I glued on two walnut scales to make the handle thicker. After that, I shaped the handle with a combination of round over bits on the router, and sanding.



**er @ Los Angeles, California

The extendable dining table has arrived in its new home, and I just got these photos. Thanks for having me make this for you. Enjoy your new home!

Applied finish this weekend. Just waiting for it to cure. Very happy with how this one came out 😁




@ Gardena, California

Worked on the center leaf yesterday. After sanding the border flush, I trimmed it so it fit nicely with the table top. I also added alignment pins so it doesn’t slip around when in place. Next step is a lot of sanding and then some edge treatment, then more sanding.



@ Los Angeles, California

Here’s a first look at the extendable dining table assembled. Now I need to work on the center leaf.




@ Los Angeles, California

Legs all mortised, stretchers all with tenons and alignment pins, ready for a glueup!

Took me a little while to figure out the best way to clamp these borders on. Turns out taking some off cuts, cutting them to shape, and gluing a little sandpaper to them made awesome little clamping aids 😎




@ Los Angeles, California

Gluing together border segments. Because the tabletop is plywood, I want to hide the plywood end grain. To do that, I’m making a 2” wide semicircle for each half. I glued some sandpaper to the cutoffs from each segment and clamped those to each half to have something for the bigger clamp to bite on. Then I used some cauls and clamps at the seam to keep it flat.



@ Los Angeles, California