Pedestal Table: Almost There!

I expect to finish the woodworking on this pedestal table tomorrow. It will be a full day of planing, scraping, sanding, and sweating. Today I finished applying the quarter-sawn veneer to the curved aprons (more on that topic tomorrow), finished installing the table slides, and attached the cockbead.



Here's a detail shot showing how the vertically-oriented grain of the aprons relates to the rest of the piece.



Soon it will be time to shift from the woodworking to the finishing phase of this project.