Chairs and Table

Fairy Furniture

Grand daughters leave grandpas with the privilege of doing cool stuff.

Here is the furniture with which she can join Alice at afternoon tea in the backyard.

Even though this is made from decking boards, a life outdoors will see the timber eventually split and fall apart. So, a decision has to be made about how much fuss to make over joinery. In this case it is simply screwed, butt jointed, and waterproof glued. The most complex joint is the use of pocket screws to join planks of the table top together. Even the mortise in the trestle legs was just a simple cut with a jig saw. As a project, I set out to give myself a nice Sunday afternoon.

My old friend, Teddy, enjoyed some time with me to test run the chair.

I made up the table as I went along, but getting angles right on the chair required a full scale drawing on a scrap of ply.