Mid-Century Modern Walnut Coffee Table with tapered legs and mortise and tenon joinery

An authentic Mid-Century Modern coffee table featuring clean geometric lines, four-sided tapered legs, a solid edge-glued Black Walnut top, and traditional blind mortise and tenon apron-to-leg joinery. Engineered for solid wood expansion using custom wooden tabletop buttons.

intermediate wood furniture

Materials

• 4/4 FAS Black Walnut (S2S 13/16")
• 8/4 FAS Black Walnut (S2S 1-7/8")

Tools Required

• Table saw with 50T combination blade
• Tapering jig (table saw)
• Router or router table with 3/8" straight/spiral bit
• Miter saw or crosscut sled
• Jointer and 13" Thickness planer
• Mortising machine or mortising chisel set with drill press
• Pipe clamps (4x 48") and parallel bar clamps (4x 24")
• Hand plane (No. 4 smoothing plane or block plane)
• Card scraper