The ultimate plan is make an oak console table to replace another table in the house - as the timber is pretty expensive I'm making a smaller test piece using the same techniques but with oddments of timber (oak for the top and legs, a contrasting timber for the rails - it might be a mahogany)
The top has been made gluing six strips together and the rails and legs cut to length. Mortises have been marked out and cut in the legs (with the new machine)
Tapering the legs - the leg (with the mortises already cut) is clamped onto the jig at a slight angle overlapping the edge of the jig - the jig is then passed through the table saw to cut a very fine wedge to create the taper - the two "inside" faces of each leg have the taper cut.
Please, no comments about the lack of a guard on the saw, the operation can't be done with the guard in place - the width of the jig allows for keeping hands well away from the blade.
The "glue-up" - clamped upside down on the MFT
Routing the bevelled edges on the oak top
The final result - not perfect by any means but good practice for the various techniques, and it used up oddments of timber.
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