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Fine tables made to order in a sunny workshop
Pick a slab, then saw, plane, rout, sand and oil it. Nell Dovetail has been at the bench for fifty years and can tell a good table from across the road.
Orders come in for tables, and you make them from scratch. Pick a slab: birch and oak come free from your own sawmill, while cherry, walnut and burr elm cost a little more.
Cut it to length, plane it flat, round the edges with the router, sand it smooth and oil it until the grain glows. Round tables have an extra step: once it is planed, drag the jigsaw round a pencil circle, and the corners drop away. Then fit the legs: tapered ones, turned ones you make yourself on the lathe through the door, or steel hairpin legs if you run the steelworks too.
Every table is a little project, and the businesses all help each other out: timber from the river, steel from the night shift, and Dot from the courier depot to take it to its new home.
