I scored some nice red oak boards at the local Menards fairly cheap.
Since I have no real good way of making curved cuts, I decided a simple design would be the most practical. You can see here that I put my Kreg jig to good use. I used it for all of the joinery in the table. I know, it would have been nicer with some mortise and tenons or pins and dowels, but keeping it simple and quick was the goal. And the pocket holes make a great tight joint. Notice the mouse traps that I used as shims to set the reveal on the aprons. They were about 3/16" of an inch and worked perfectly.
Here it is almost done. I am trying to decide weather I want the bottom shelf higher or lower.
The low position won. I think it looks nicer that way and you can put a tall vase on it if you want. Now it just needs some stain and poly to make it last a long time.
The table is 25" H X 16" W X 18" D. If anyone is interested, I will post detailed dimensions of the components.
Here it is with a first coat of stain.
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