Your wife made a wise decision. Beautiful table but the brass nob does not
to it justice. It really needs a handmade knob... maybe ebony or something
on that order. Canarywood would also look nice. The piece is very well made
and looks very nice. Enhance it with a different knob that will really set
it off.

Tim

"Kevin" wrote in message
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My wife said the TV table next to the couch where I sit had to go so I
built this.
It’s mahogany with a tiger maple drawer font. The secondary wood is
poplar and I made support rails out of maple.
The finish is spar varnish (you can take the boy out of the boat shop
but you can’t take the bat shop out of the boy).
Two spit coats, 50-50 varnish and thinner, then two full strength coats
with sanding in between.
No pore filler or shellac first just the spar varnish. For the draw
front I added a little stain to make it pop a little more.

I get a bunch of my tiger maple from my local Home Depot. Every time I
pick through their maple selection I find 1 or 2 pieces of nice tiger.
That’s where the drawer front came from.