My wife saw this design online, but the build quality and price did not seem too attractive. So I decided to build one myself. (And a standing lamp with similar design first, to try out the concept.)

I choose (european) beech for the wood, OSMO hardwax oil and brass screws.

Feet are 30x50x550mm

Stem is 40x45x1500mm

Tray is 5x40x400mm thin stripes, and some scrap for the back. (I think it is lighter colored beech...)

After cutting everything to size, I cut finger grooves into the end of the pieces for the movable links with a router. From both sides and very, very carefully with lots of measuring and testing. If I would have had a table saw, I would have used that.

The fasteners for the joints are standard M8 INOX carriage bolts epoxied into a square piece of wood with a little square cut out for the square part of the carriage bolts head.

I also polished the bolts heads by mounting them in the drill stand and touching up with wet sandpaper. That gave them a satin finish and look so much better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriage_bolt

I also polished the bolts heads by mounting them in the drill stand and touching up with wet sandpaper.

The counterpart on the other side of the joint was a M8 square nut, epoxied into a square hole chiseled into the wood.

The Feet are two pieces with a 90deg lap joint. Then I cut mortises into the inner side of the legs thighs and the stem, and drilled a hole through to fix it with a M8 bolt.

Lots of sanding, and a liter of oil later - done!





Special thanks to Roy from /r/woodworking!















