PRUETT JOE, Author at Pruett Woodworking

The QueenAnne sofa table

QueenAnne period furniture, Cherry sofa table

Since I have developed a love for period furniture, I decided I was going to start building some QueenAnne style furniture for my family room. It started with the “Princess” dressing table. The first item I built in this style was the sofa table. Since I am using rough cut cherry I wanted to showcase the beautiful imperfections in the grains and make them shine. The table is 20 inches wide and 51 inches long. I decided not to put the drop finials on this table because of the kids on the holidays, ( I didn’t see them lasting very long). I finished it with General Finishes vintage cherry dye stain and two coats of a one pound cut garnet shellac and a water based poly top coat.

“Angel” the pearl white Stratocaster.

The building of a custom Stratocaster

Above is the finished project. She is a Stratocaster painted in three stage Toyota pearl white and five coats of clear lacquer. I installed Seymor Duncan California 50’s pickups. It sounds as good as it looks. The body was rather rough when i got it so it was sanded and some of the contours were shaped to be smoother and flow nicer into the body. Below are a few images from the build as it progressed.

Makeup table built for a princess!

The Princess makeup table came out of a needed vacation where I met my best friend and the most amazing woman. I felt inspired to build her something as beautiful as she is. So I stepped completely out of my comfort zone and elevated my game. I tried Cabriole legs for the first time and had a great time learning to shape them with a rasp and get them to look identical.

The makeup table build had lead me down the path of period furniture. I have many ideas about how to make this different and more elaborate. Bigger and better but I am very proud to have built this table. So as you can see, inspiration can come from anyplace or anyone. So keep your eyes open at all times and keep a note pad handy for ideas.