Featuring Cantilever Style Legs from 2x10 Lumber // WnW294
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Using Half-Laps and Dowels to make a Modern Desk
Featuring Cantilever Style Legs from 2x10 Lumber // WnW294


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Call it a desk, a Sewing Table, a Craft Table, or whatever you want. The way to build it is all the same.

This is going to be a sewing desk for my wife's craft room.
I decided that I wanted to build the top out of white oak, just because I hadn't used White Oak in a while, and wanted to do something different.

As a side note, regular viewers know that I work a lot in Cherry. Cherry is gorgeous wood, but it is on the softer side of the domestic hardwoods. For a desk or work table I would usually go for something harder, like Maple, Oak, Walnut or something like that. But to be fair, you could also make the top out of plywood. But the cost of plywood is getting pretty expensive, and I still know of a lumber mill an hour out of town that sells locally sourced hardwood at a fair price.

In contrast, for the legs I went with common 2x10 Construction Lumber from the local Building Supply store. Around here those are Spruce, and I thought the pale colour would nicely contrast the White Oak top. They're also fairly inexpensive and easy to find and easy to work with.

I find that 2x10 and 2x12 lumber is of FAR greater quality wood than buying 2x4 and 2x6 boards.

The base is inspired by similar cantilever-style desk bases from Matthias Wandel of woodgears.ca fame. But I made mine with 2 vertical uprights.

The top is aligned using dowels and the Dowelmax jig
The legs are built using Half-Lap joinery.
The stretchers are attached with 1/2" dowels and the Dowelmax jig.

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https://dowelmax.com?aff=4 -- Dowelmax.com

https://amzn.to/2beVz3t — Minwax oil-modified Polyurethane
https://amzn.to/2b6uuLc — West System Epoxy kits

https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/... -- The Table Mounting Clips I use
https://amzn.to/47ND2BZ -- Similar Table mount Z-Clips

https://amzn.to/1V4ZHkv — Painter’s Pyramids
https://amzn.to/2nbD1W4 — Freud Box Joint Cutter Blade set
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https://amzn.to/3crVhAD -- Jorgensen Cabinet Master Clamps
https://amzn.to/1YP3rXy — Irwin Quick-grip XP600 clamps

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Index
00:00 Milling Lumber
03:27 Discuss Layout
05:30 What Is Your Project For!?
08:19 Dowels to Align
10:37 Minor Oops
11:17 Front Lip
12:30 Gap Repair
13:36 Epoxy Filling
15:21 Legs Roughed Out
17:16 Dowel The Legs
19:05 Half Laps
21:20 Stretchers
21:53 Angles on Legs
23:04 Assemble Base
26:46 Finishing and Assembly
28:20 Z-Clips
29:10 Done!