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This is my first piece of furniture with hand-cut mortise-and-tenon joinery. It's far from perfect, but I managed to hide most of the imperfections inside the frame.

I finished it with 50/50 beeswax and mineral oil.

I think the table top and long aprons are cherry, with two strips of what may be oak in the table top? It was in the miscellaneous pile at my community workshop, so your guys is as good as mine. The legs and short apron are sapele, which is probably my favorite wood when it's finished, it's unbelievably lustrous in person.

Happy to answer an questions, otherwise, I just wanted to share the first thing I've ever made that I didn't finish and immediately tear apart all the mistakes I made, I'm genuinely pleased with this one!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can literally feel those corners jabbing me in the shins.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This feels like a conversation I have with my wife about me placing everyday objects around the house in places where they would logically be, then she runs straight into them anyway

"Darling, I cannot protect you from what is right in front of your eyeballs"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Hey some of us are just more clumsy than others.

Also I'm my cramped apartment I have to regularly remind my fiancee that I'm way larger than her and that having to turn sideways to maneuver through my own home is a real damn nuisance lol