I saw a neat table by Tomoko Azumi that uses a semi-Japanese joint (it's not really super traditional or super functional, but nice nonetheless) to join the skirt and legs of a table together. It's basically a 3 member joint, with the curveball that the legs are titled at a slight angle. I drew it up in Sketchup to let the computer do the hard math, but while dimensioning it I wasn't happy with the visual appearance of the drawing I'd have to work with to actually layout and cut the joints. I redrew it, which you see above, and I kind of liked the process of trying to get my head around what is hidden, what is visible, and where things are pretty much the same, but not quite the same. Overall a good experience and a good chance to get off the computer and do some designing in the real world. I kind of like the drawing too...it's got something nice about it going on...
