If you’re a fan of Gustav Stickley furniture, there are a few rites of passage when building reproduction furniture. A Morris chair certainly comes to mind and perhaps a nightstand or sideboard if you’re feeling ambitious. I think a drop-leaf table should grace that list of must-build projects as well. Although originally advertised as a sewing table, this little cabinet has been offered in several iterations, while maintaining the #630 designation. Depending on the catalog year, you may see it as a two or three drawer version, but the overall dimensions of the piece were the same.
Hardware choices changed over the years as well—from classic hammered copper bail pulls to wooden knobs on later models. Some pieces even featured inlaied designs on the drop-leaves and drawer fronts. It’s a great project to further develop your skills and features tapered legs, rule joints, hinged corbels, and a lapped dovetail rail. Any way you build it, the end result is a functional piece of furniture that easily transforms from a small corner table to a large work surface.
Start with the Panels
Unlike many of Stickley’s later designs that employed frame and panel construction, the side and back panels on this table are just solid hardwood. The grain runs horizontally
