Quick Coffee Table p.1

This coffee table was required quickly to put a new TV on. It was quick because I bought the raw oak fluted legs several years before from an antique emporium in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, for the princely sum of £10.
The rest of the table will be some English Oak offcuts from an old bookshelf given to me by the abovementioned emporium, and some American oak veneered 18mm MDF from the dining table I made earlier.

I will be using an old Record/Marples no. 148 dowelling jig, and some Kreg Pocket Screws to join the rails to the legs. The dowel jig requires that reference (datum) faces are clearly marked so that was the first jo after cutting and hand-planing to size.
The dowel jig has two reference faces, and these must always be held against the marked datum faces on the stock.
Each side of a dowel joint has to be cut with opposite sides of the jig. That is to say when you have drilled dowel holes on one joint face, the matching joint face is cut with the jig inverted, but with the reference faces against the datum faces on the stock. I decided to mark the joint faces where I used the jig with the round-headed screws showing with a little screwhead drawing.
This piece has been drilled with the jig having the drill bush screws upwards (showing). Its mating piece will be drilled with jig held so the the screws are down (not showing)

Flippin' heck - I hope you understood that!.
This shows the jig, screws upward, clamped to a leg and a spare piece of wood held in the vice.