Bookstand reproduction

[Richard Link]

This is my rendition of the William and Mary bookstand published in the November 2010 Popular Woodworking. The original plan is courtesy of Charles Bender and the Acanthus Workshop.

I ended up making several of these using different techniques to try things out. It was interesting to do the same steps several different ways: hand cut dovetails vs. machine cut dovetails, band sawn side profiles vs. template routed profiles, integral tenons vs. floating tenons, etc.

This one is something I made for a charity auction. It's made of American Walnut with mortise and tenon and dovetail joinery, hand turned bun feet and a traditional shellac finish.

For the finish, I basically put down a thin layer of dewaxed shellac and then sprayed 3 coats of Bullseye amber shellac diluted 1:3 and then toned with Transtint reddish brown dye. Surface leveled with a 500grit Festool pad. Final top coat is wax. This finish feels very nice to touch, has a pleasant color and the entire finish can be done in a day. I have not tried to give it an antique patina although I might fool around with that for the last one in production.

If you are looking for a fun project to try out some techniques, this is a nice one. Thanks for looking.

Richard

[Skunkeye]

Looks great! Is a Roubo bookstand next?

[duckkisser]

i realy like that im thinking that if you put a picture in the center and change a few things you could hang it on the wall and take down when you needed a book stand.

do you have the plans to this build because i would love to make one for the classroom and it would be great if you could post it.