Finished Scraping the Table Top and Doug Moulder's Writing Desk

I finished planing and scraping the table top after using the router to lower the majority of the table top by 1/4 inch.  Dust was everywhere upstairs in the shop where I had set up to do the routing.  It took me 30 minutes to vacuum up all the chips. I really dislike using the router but removing 1/4 inch from the entire top by hand would have been challenging.   I suppose I would have used a router  plane to set some reference grooves and then used chisels to remove the bulk of the waste.  After that I suppose it would have been the same for smoothing - planes and scraping.  Maybe next time I'll do it by hand. 

Here is a short video showing the scraped table top.

My friend Doug Moulder finished his project today.  He is a lot quicker than I am, maybe I should enlist him to help finish the table.  Anyway, he has been building a replica of the Thomas Jefferson Writing Desk.  He made it from walnut and did most of the work by hand.  He did a wonderful job and sent me a few pictures.  I have seen these reproductions go for $800 or more.  Thanks for sharing Doug.