Making the Libbey Coffee Table
The Story
The Libbey Coffee Table is a custom locally-sourced ash coffee table on a trestle base. The live edge top is book-matched, all from the same tree.
The base has floating mahogany through-tenons, each one cut and fit it by hand.
For another low table, see the Krotona Coffee Table.
Topic
Making
Type
Coffee table
Materials
Ash, Mahogany
The ash slab for the top, keeping its live edge and natural character. The checks were filled with epoxy.
The trestle base laid out, with the mortises cut.
Clamping up the trestle base.
Fitting a through-tenon with a rasp.
A finished through-tenon at the foot of the base.
Laying out the book matched top.
Every design
starts with a
conversation.
Let’s talk
Making the Libbey Coffee Table
The Story
The Libbey Coffee Table is a custom locally-sourced ash coffee table on a trestle base. The live edge top is book-matched, all from the same tree.
The base has floating mahogany through-tenons, each one cut and fit it by hand.
For another low table, see the Krotona Coffee Table.
Topic
Making
Type
Coffee table
Materials
Ash, Mahogany
The ash slab for the top, keeping its live edge and natural character. The checks were filled with epoxy.
The trestle base laid out, with the mortises cut.
Clamping up the trestle base.
Fitting a through-tenon with a rasp.
A finished through-tenon at the foot of the base.
Laying out the book matched top.
Every design
starts with a
conversation.
Let’s talk
Making the Libbey Coffee Table
The Story
The Libbey Coffee Table is a custom locally-sourced ash coffee table on a trestle base. The live edge top is book-matched, all from the same tree.
The base has floating mahogany through-tenons, each one cut and fit it by hand.
For another low table, see the Krotona Coffee Table.
Topic
Making
Type
Coffee table
Materials
Ash, Mahogany
The ash slab for the top, keeping its live edge and natural character. The checks were filled with epoxy.
The trestle base laid out, with the mortises cut.
Clamping up the trestle base.
Fitting a through-tenon with a rasp.
A finished through-tenon at the foot of the base.
Laying out the book matched top.
Every design
starts with a
conversation.
Let’s talk