Mid Century Dog Food Bowls | PUP SERIES Pt. 1 | DIY

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With our big dog (Watson) getting older, I wanted to make sure his joints were being well taken care of while he enjoyed his favorite activity - eating. And of course, I couldn't leave our little dog (Moriarty) in the lurch, so I made them both raised, mid century modern styled dog food bowls!

I used these mid century dog food bowls to also practice the bridle joint. As a rookie, I'm eager to improve my repertoire on all things woodworking - and making interestingly designed furniture that will also take a good beating is still an ever work in progress for me.


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How to make, or how I made mid century/minimalist dog food bowls

Let’s get into it.

I started by ripping and jointing the raw lumber, then cutting it into panels,

running those through the jointer and planer to get them square,

and cutting them into 4” planks

After that, i glued 3 longer pieces together and two shorter pieces together to make up what would become the dog food bowl table tops.

While those dried, I got to work ripping, jointing and planing the lumber for the legs.

I then cut the large bowl legs down to equal lengths.

And cut and extra large leg in half, then in half again to make the small bowl legs.

I used a simple jig to cut equal tapers for both sets.

I’ll use the large bowl legs to walk you through the bridal joints

First, I cut each leg down to size at a 10 degree angle.

Then cut the ends of the stretcher at a 17 degree angle to match the taper

Using a tenoning jig, I cut the inner most depth for the bridle tenon on both sides of every leg.

Then added a support to the tenoning jig at 17 degrees to cut the mortises in the stretchers.

With a little help from the sliding compound miter and my hand saw, I cut away the excess for the tenons.

Let’s switch to the small bowl to run through the glue up

While I get these legs put together ….


Since the bridle joints sat a little high in the mortise, I needed to trim the stretchers down, just a hair.

The big bowl legs needs some touch ups too.

...oh well, only practice will make perfect!

With the legs coming together, I got the dry table top panels cut down to size.

And cut out the square stretchers as well.

With all the pieces assembled, I measured, marked and cut the dowel joints to connect the legs, to the perpendicular stretchers.

Then before gluing, I rounded over the edges …

And gave everything a finishing level sand down.

Time to glue!

With the legs ready to go, I needed to connect them to the table tops. I opted for a splined floating through tenon.

And with both those components in place, I needed to make space for the hammered stainless steel bowls to sit inside the table tops.

I used a circle cutting router jig to get the job done.

One last pass with the sander

And it was time for finish

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