Table Build

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Brian
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Table Build

Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:37 pm

The bed build is now complete, I will post up some photos as soon as I can shuffle the furniture around in my house. The cabinet will resume shortly after this table is complete.

Now I'm onto a table, building this small dining table height table for a friend of mine for use in his art studio. He is a painter, but just like those painters wearing Italian suits and smoking cigars from the 40's....he's of that variety, so a bit of fine furniture in the studio is needed.

Starting off by prepping the stock, I removed the wind and leveled these boards, prepping them to be glued together to form the tabletop;

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You may notice that sometimes when prepping stock I like a bit of entertainment in the workshop, contrast to when I'm cutting joinery I like everything quiet.
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Two glued and onto board three;
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Everything is glued, leveled, jointed and thicknessed and now I a prepared to start cutting the battens;
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Battens are done and now cutting tapered dados;
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Followed by dovetailing them with the side rabbet;
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All set;
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The cherry stock is prepped for this project, all ready for joinery. I did not document the prepping of this stock since it's so redundant with the recent past.
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Brian
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Re: Table Build

Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:34 pm

Much time spent on the saw today! Hah, but hopefully to good effect;

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Finishing sawing those in two ways, I could have cheated but I wanted to retain the additional stock for future use

Started these by flattening the backs
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Then reference for the sides and finally sawing the first angle, this is the attachment point for the table edge.

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I planed that flat and true, then clamped this up with a batten and cut the groove with a grooving plane. Sorry I skipped the photos in the moment
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Next I use the dovetail plane on both the housing and on the table edge, maintaining a comparable taper on both
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Test fitting

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Now making out for the second angle
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and sawing
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I trued that cut, cut another angle at the bottom, then rounded over the edges with a spoke shave and finally finished it all to a nice texture with the smoothing plane
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I dont know what it is about these wings, but I think they are pretty neat. Obviously a bit overboard for the goal in mind, but they double as battens and are super sturdy.

Just a quick note that these are purposefully left long at the moment.
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Re: Table Build

Sat Aug 15, 2015 9:01 am

Really nice! The bed also beautiful! Like the wings too!
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Brian
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Re: Table Build

Sat Aug 15, 2015 11:55 am

Thanks JT!
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Re: Table Build

Wed Dec 30, 2015 11:16 pm

Been a stretch since I worked on this. Some changes, my friend decided it was too fancy for painting on, and so now it is going to be a coffee table. Not a problem.

This is a teaser, I will post up the cut out after I finish the other side. I was debating if the stub tenons were necessary and safe to say I am glad I decided to add them, thus joint us short but super sturdy. Frankly, I'm surprised at how much sturdiness it added to the assembly. I won't be gluing this joint, simply adding a peg to hold it together.

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Brian
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Re: Table Build

Thu Dec 31, 2015 1:54 am

And here is the fun stuff;

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quintessential robe shot.

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Paul Atzenweiler
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Re: Table Build

Thu Dec 31, 2015 11:58 am

Love love love it! Whenever you post pictures i find myself being very jealous of workspace and tools. Today i am envious of your saws. Well done on that long sliding dovetail. The piece looks great. What color are you going to paint it?
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Re: Table Build

Thu Dec 31, 2015 4:16 pm

Add a little melamine to that top and it will be easy to care for...
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Brian
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Re: Table Build

Thu Dec 31, 2015 7:45 pm

Lol!

It was orginally going to get the Jackson Pollick treatment, but now it looks like it will left to patina at a much slower pace.

Thanks gents!
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Jon B
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Re: Table Build

Thu Dec 31, 2015 9:12 pm

The table is looking great Brian. I like that dovetail plane you used to cut the sliding dovetails.

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