Wife person wanted a small table to park next to her rocking chair on the patio to hold her sewing materials. And when wife person wants...

 

So, I went to my collection of extraneous materials from previously completed projects and acquired the makings for this little monster. Walnut wrapped around an oak plywood panel. Approx. 14" x 17" x 30" high.

 

So, you can see that I'm not TOTALLY lazy and just make smart a@@ comments (although I do have a Masters degree in Smart A@@) 

Nice design

Quite smart looking. I like it! 

And a justified reason to collect more extraneous materials 

psst....

 

what?

 

he's talking fancy talk!

 

he is?

 

indeed!  we just call that "scraps"

 

bet he went to college to learn to talk that fancy.

 

yup.

 

oh...nice table.

6 minutes ago, DAB said:

psst....

 

what?

 

he's talking fancy talk!

 

he is?

 

indeed!  we just call that "scraps"

 

bet he went to college to learn to talk that fancy.

 

yup.

 

oh...nice table.

And your point would be...? 

 

Made ya look though, didn't it?

3 hours ago, frenchwwr said:

And a justified reason to collect more extraneous materials 

Reasons.  I don't need no stinkin' reasons!

 

 

A quick look through my shop space will tell you that.

Nice build!

Nice table!   I have to admit since you mentioned a rocking chair that I was kind expecting a rocking table to go with it though. Could it be your wife stops to retrieve knitting supplies off the table then resumes rocking to knit? 

 

4D

No. She mostly does cross-stitch work outside and very little rocking.

 

I have enough trouble keeping my tables from rocking as is without trying to make them rockers.  

 

Maybe I should try to design them as rockers and they would remain steady. Hmmmm....

A teacher's tale....  I did have a student a few decades ago that after making a rocking chair she wanted a table to sit by it. I teased her saying that the best design for a rocker-side table would be a rocking table. Perhaps with an interlock to the rocker so they could stay synchronized. The table top of course would have to stay level as it rocked. 

 

She thought about it.  Sketched a few ideas.  Did a little research in the college library (no internet at this time). 

Eventually she declared I had to be kidding as she couldn't find any examples of such a table, and couldn't figure out how to make it rock with the top staying level anyway.   In the end she did make a nice, ordinary table that looked stylistically to be a good match to the rocker design.  Didn't rock though. More of a classical style.   

2 hours ago, Headhunter said:

Maybe I should try to design them as rockers and they would remain steady. Hmmmm....

Some value in that idea I promise. Rockers, left alone, are stable with only two points touching the floor. 

Jump up to 3 legs and you can't make that table rock. The tripod phenomenon.