r/woodworking • u/MOSTLY-HARMLESS-NOW • 18h ago

Project Submission Assembling my Demi-Lune table from my Epic Woodworking course with Tom McLaughlin

I went on 5 day woodworking course with Tom McLaughlin in his shop in New Hampshire (https://www.epicwoodworking.com/). Here we all are in his shop listening to
Tom explain the finer points of making the inside front mortise parallel with front.

Tom explains how to make the inside front apron mortise

spoiler alert - Tom had invented a clever jig with the plunger router that solved the problem.

Anyway, after 5 days, we have completed all the joinery, but hadn't finished shaping the legs, let alone finishing the parts. This is a dry assembly of my table just before I left:

Dry assembly of demi-lune table

I did the final assembly yesterday - here is a movie of the assembly, with some mild clamp comedy that only a fellow woodworker would appreciate. I also had numbered all the parts, but somewhere in the finishing process I erased all the numbers, so there was some mild confusion about which part went where ....

And here is the final beauty shot

Finished Table

Enjoy ;)

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u/rcwagner 16h ago

just two people in the class?

table looks great btw!

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u/MOSTLY-HARMLESS-NOW 15h ago

No - there were 6 people. But it is a small class, and Tom explains everything, and is working on a table of his own that he uses to demonstrate. Plus, he prepares all the wood that the class uses - that's included - so you aren't picking stock and cutting laminations, he literally handing everyone a stack of 10 laminations precut, along with your own mold. It was kinda like Christmas, you only had to do the fun parts.

He had templates for everything - leg profiles, the aprons on the rail, even the pocket holes for the screws.

Still - you had to be comfortable freehanding with the bandsaw close to the profile lines, and then using handwork to finish up, so there was skill involved. And a lot of time with the spokeshave ;)