David Heim says "A friend's wife wanted an Arts and Crafts inspired table. I'm a beginning woodworker in need of practice and made my friend a deal. He bought the wood and I made the table. I learned so much, from joinery to finishing. I had only one moment of complete panic. This was a custom piece, and I was not working from a plan. I'd glued up the ends, and when I dry fitted the entire assembly I was startled to see that I'd put an extra mortice in each leg where none was supposed to be. After a day or two I figured out that I could plug the mortice, cut some matching quarter sawn veneer, and cover the whole side of the leg. It worked great, and I wished that I'd done both plane sawn faces of each leg that way so as to get nice quarter sawn grain on all faces of the legs. In the end, my friend's wife was very pleased, as I was."