6 Days to Aurora – Day 2

We covered a good bit of ground today. We started by preparing the stock for the remaining parts of the table base and drawer. This beautiful piece of 5/4 mahogany served us very well! Not wanting to use any more material than necessary, we had to carefully plan and layout our cuts. Darrell’s design calls for numerous parts at different thicknesses. So the beauty of the Aurora Table comes at the cost of simplicity. But as I start to see pieces of this project come together, there is no doubt that the effort is well worth it, and there is much to learn from Darrell’s design habits.

We spent a good deal of time marking, rough cutting, and routing all the arched rail pieces. The front (under the drawer) receives a true independent arched rail, while the side and back aprons receive an applied arch.

I then spent some quality time with the Multi-Router making the remaining mortises in the aprons and rails. If you aren’t familiar with a Multi-Router, its basically a router mounted horizontally. The way the system is designed, its incredibly easy to make accurate and repeatable cuts.

And this final shot is for those who were asking about this monster pattern bit. I will ask William about it tomorrow.

Oh by the way. The book that really accelerated my interest in Greene & Greene furniture was written by the instructor himself, Darrell Peart. You can pick it up directly on his website and he’ll even autograph it for you.

The rest of this series:
6 Days to Aurora- Day 1
6 Days to Aurora- Day 2
6 Days to Aurora- Day 3
6 Days to Aurora- Day 4
6 Days to Aurora- Day 5
6 Days to Aurora- Day 6