gasman
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Did this in evenings this week - sorry for the lack of WIP...
The legs are walnut, shaped with a bearing-guided router cutter.
The ash top is just 2 planks dominoed together. This was then cut into an oval, drawn using the string / nail technique, roughly bandsawn then finished with a bench-clamped belt sander
The legs protrude through top through holes which were a bit fiddly to cut. I used forster bits, then a series of chisels and goiges to cut the curved, sloping inside edges of the holes in the top
2mm ebony strips were then glued / edge-clamped / sellotaped around the edge of the ash table top
The smaller oval below the main table top is actually 10mm oak - again dominoed together, cut to an oval, sanded and card-scraped, before being ebonized using the vinegar/wire wool trick mentioned in several threads here - it worked a treat although was very blue before being sanded down gently.
Finish is, as before, sanding sealer, hardwaxoil and wax polish
Thanks for looking
The legs are walnut, shaped with a bearing-guided router cutter.
The ash top is just 2 planks dominoed together. This was then cut into an oval, drawn using the string / nail technique, roughly bandsawn then finished with a bench-clamped belt sander
The legs protrude through top through holes which were a bit fiddly to cut. I used forster bits, then a series of chisels and goiges to cut the curved, sloping inside edges of the holes in the top
2mm ebony strips were then glued / edge-clamped / sellotaped around the edge of the ash table top
The smaller oval below the main table top is actually 10mm oak - again dominoed together, cut to an oval, sanded and card-scraped, before being ebonized using the vinegar/wire wool trick mentioned in several threads here - it worked a treat although was very blue before being sanded down gently.
Finish is, as before, sanding sealer, hardwaxoil and wax polish
Thanks for looking
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