The slab of timber for the laptop desk had a very large split that in the old days would have sent it to the firewood pile. The use of the ‘bowties’ or ‘dovetail inlays’ stabilise the split and add an interesting design element that we continued to the end piece and also the stool.
Making of the Laptop Desk
Cutting the Slab
Dovetail end
Sliding dovetail leg
Through Mortice legs
The first layer of Tung Oil
Table finished
Making of the Stool
Rough cutting the stool seat
Shaping the Business End
Drilling the hole for the front leg
Adding the lumbar support
Finish applied
Silky Oak Laptop Desk and Stool
Quiet Carpentry 