Almost a year ago Emily of Emily Owens Design Group came to me about a conference table for a private client. Her words where," we need to design a table that Presidents and Heads of State will sit at."

Something that would make a statement. While I was contemplating that, she also added the sideboard that is in the background of the picture below. The design and construction of it is in a previous post.

As the room took shape it was decided that the room would be themed around the Constitution.

Brad Oldham's team joined in to do the exquisite bronze work. Their part would be the corners of the apron and the ribbon containing each signer of the Constitution. Fun things to figure out like hidden data ports and hidden drawers where thrown in to complicate things.

    

First thing was to get going on the full scale drawings.

                              This is the start of the torsion box for the drawers and strength.

The MDF dividers where .750 The router bit was .750. Had to use a little 120 on a shaved down block to get a little clearance.

Torsion box together. fitting the apron and cutting out the drawer openings. The sub top made a great 48"X 162" workbench!

Here is a pic of the apron and drawer mock up.

The guys at Wood Gallery came through with these stunning Mahogany panels.

This is the top with the panels cut to form a quartered and bookmatched top of Crotch Mahogany.

I was standing on my work bench and still couldn't fit it all in.

This is really going to polish up nicely.

East Indian Rosewood crossbanding. 

Cleaning up the banding with my Sauer & Steiner K7. Don't know how I got along all these years without that plane.

There will be an 1/8" bronze line between the band and field.

The next thing to tackle was the compass roses that would hide the data and power ports.

After a lot of shaving they where done. The hard part was getting the points to end at the inside and outside of the bronze ring.

                                                                       The finished pair.

                             Parts for the Corinthian style column and base that will serve as pedestals.

Back from the turner. Mike Chavez has been doing my turning for more years than we want to remember. I think we found the limits of his lathe with these.

Fluted and ready for stain and finish.

This is the concept sculpture for the bronze corners each depicting a scene of the writing and signing of the Constitution.

Here's a shot of the 4 scenes in clay.

A picture of the signature ribbons in clay.

That's it for part one. Let's see if this will upload before we go farther. Had issues last night!