After I’ve started doing “real” designs I’ve been feeling that everything should be done “by blueprint and schedule”. That wasn’t the point when I started and doing my projects shouldn’t feel like an extra job. So right now I’ve gone back to just playing.

A couple of weeks ago I just decided to “just do it” – use whatever leftovers I had from the chair and the footstool and build a coffee table that I promised one of my childhood friends.

I consider it a “practice and have fun project” where I can try out new ideas.

The legs are done in “my usual” style with the dovetails but today I’ve started doing the table top where I’m trying a new idea. Its made of little a lot of small pieces glued together with the endgrain as main surface. I guess it will be pretty hard to plane.

I think its cherry wood and its actually legs from a couple broken and unused chars we didn’t use any more. I thinks its fun how many of the pieces come with a story of what the wood was previously used for.

- and tomorrow I’m expecting to pick up some new tools that I purchased in the UK: two new japanese saws and a small handplane – Christmas comes (too) often and at a price…