Before I go into the days activities you might be wondering why this project is taking an age to finish and to be honest I maybe only really get to spend like 2-3 hours a day and maybe 4 days a week in the shop. Since this project is for my house and not a paying customer I am taking my time and that’s why I like doing projects for my house, as there is no time restraints on finishing it.

Two more thing that I have noticed with this project because of the dowel joinery I can’t seem to glue up and single part of the project as I need to reference components within the sections of the table eg the sides .. since I still need to use a leg to reference the dowels from that part into the upper stretcher

Dowel joinery is not quick at least with the jig I am using

Anyway today I accomplished the following:

Laid out the dowels for the side stretchers
Did a dry assembly on the 2 sides attached to the back and front stretchers

Side assembly

I decided to make a dry assembly of the left and rights just to make sure all the dowels lined up.

Side Spindals

Here you can see the spindals attached to the upper and lower side stretchers, no glue just yet

Console Table

This is also a dry assembly of all the components so far , it looks OK just need to make some minor alterations

Table so far

Another angle of the console table dry fit.

My Project Plans

These are the plans I made, its a good thing I am making it because unless you do sometimes a plan needs ammendent, in todays case I planned on using 3/8” dowels but they were too big for the spindals I needed to use 5/16” dowels instead.

Side View

I just realized how short this table actually is but that is ok ,I designed it to fit under a window sill

More layouts

I feel like all I did today was laying out the dowels position in all the components.