Finally getting around to gluing up the octagon skirt.

I’ve almost finished assembling the pedestal table skirt and drawer face.

I just need to sand the pieces, glue them up and start the drawer supports.

Here’s where I’m at with the cabinet as of today.  Upper cabinet is done, a few new tool holders.  I wonder if this is supposed to be just an ever evolving thing.

Next I cut 8 x 3/4″ pieces that were 4″ wide for the octagonal skirt.

Then I routed the same edge profile as I did for the top.

I used the tablesaw to cut off the strips of moulding one by one until I got eight from this single board.

The next step will be to glue the mouldings to each of the 8 skirt pieces, cut the ends to 22.5 degrees and and join them to make an octagon.  I haven’t decided on how to join the pieces yet.

Here is the routed profile done on the router table, classical cove and bead.

Now i used the track saw to cut along the layout lines to make the octagon top.

Next I glued up three sections to make the top.

And then there were legs.

The joint to secure the legs to the base will be a sliding dovetail.  To make the dovetail slot on the base I first routed a stopped 1/2″ wide, 3/4″ deep groove to remove most of the waste to finish off with the dovetail bit.

I’ve shaped out the four legs today.  First I used the bandsaw to cut out the template close to the line for all legs.

Then I sanded to the line to get one good leg. I used double stick tape to tape the good leg as a template on the bottom of each of the roughed out legs and used the flush trim bit in the router to duplicate the first.