Someone Else's Projects

 Christmas presents this year were started early - last spring. Tim made four sets of nesting tables, each set with three tables, for each of our three children, and one set for ourselves. It was all a big secret, but a pile of 48 legs lying around does raise some eyebrows. The children were told not to ask questions. I think they were surprised at the big reveal on Christmas Eve.

Two sets were built in cherry, because we slyly investigated the kind of wood each child preferred. Two sets were built of caoba, a very hard reddish wood native to Ecuador. Tim brought back several "doble piezas" or raw logs in our shipping container. He sawed, planed, jointed, glued, cut, routed, sanded and voilà, a thing of beauty. And usefulness.