Ok here is my latest project. Having got a few large planks from the Jan HJpugh auction I decided that the only thing fitting for such lovely pieces of wood was to make something big and impressive, and seeming as wife was threatening to buy a dining table from oak furniture land I thought a table to be in order.
The brown oak is in the front, (its yew in the background)
The planks were 96x22x21/2
The plunge saw was tested with the thickness of the wood but managed it. I always find I have to clamp the rails down which can be a bit of a pain, despite them being sold as not needing any clamping
I then faced an difficult decision, all the planks were cupped, I had planned to flatten them by hand but in my excitment of the auction had not really inspected the planks well and the cupping meant that a flat board would be less than 1 inch thick. I therefore decided to split each plank in two and rejoin them later after planning
The planks then had the other side cut straight on the table saw. One of the major difficulties of this project was the size and weight of each plank
Legs were made from a few beams from an earlier auction, put through the trusty dewalt dw50. I managed to break it on one leg that was wedge shaped and got stuck and broke two of the cogs but fortunately spares were found despite the machine being older than me
The planks were then arranged to create the best pattern giving an idea of how big and what the table will look like. I was chuffed to pieces when I found the two planks were book matched! The amount of effort it took to plane them cannot be conveyed, I do not have any rollers and worked alone, so had to carry the all the weight myself, did not need to go the gym for a while
Mortices for the legs were cut with my router, I have not done them this way before any you can see it is a high tech set up. As I did not have a spiral bit I found what made life so much easier was to cut roughly on drill press with a drill bit then tidy up with router and could do it with one pass
Stretchers cut out of a plank of AWO that definately had a bit of character (but was very cheap)
Tenons were rounded with round over bit on router freehand then tidied up with a chisel, a surprisingly effective way
Finished pics to follow. I just want to say thanks to all who share their work here, particularly Dodge and Mailee. Almost my entire (woodworking) knowledge base is from this forum. If any moderators read this I would love to have a 'like' button to click on each thread, I know its nice to leave comments, but I always feel a bit stupid interrupting the thread to say thats nice and not having anything else sensible to say
Tom
The brown oak is in the front, (its yew in the background)
The planks were 96x22x21/2
The plunge saw was tested with the thickness of the wood but managed it. I always find I have to clamp the rails down which can be a bit of a pain, despite them being sold as not needing any clamping
I then faced an difficult decision, all the planks were cupped, I had planned to flatten them by hand but in my excitment of the auction had not really inspected the planks well and the cupping meant that a flat board would be less than 1 inch thick. I therefore decided to split each plank in two and rejoin them later after planning
The planks then had the other side cut straight on the table saw. One of the major difficulties of this project was the size and weight of each plank
Legs were made from a few beams from an earlier auction, put through the trusty dewalt dw50. I managed to break it on one leg that was wedge shaped and got stuck and broke two of the cogs but fortunately spares were found despite the machine being older than me
The planks were then arranged to create the best pattern giving an idea of how big and what the table will look like. I was chuffed to pieces when I found the two planks were book matched! The amount of effort it took to plane them cannot be conveyed, I do not have any rollers and worked alone, so had to carry the all the weight myself, did not need to go the gym for a while
Mortices for the legs were cut with my router, I have not done them this way before any you can see it is a high tech set up. As I did not have a spiral bit I found what made life so much easier was to cut roughly on drill press with a drill bit then tidy up with router and could do it with one pass
Stretchers cut out of a plank of AWO that definately had a bit of character (but was very cheap)
Tenons were rounded with round over bit on router freehand then tidied up with a chisel, a surprisingly effective way
Finished pics to follow. I just want to say thanks to all who share their work here, particularly Dodge and Mailee. Almost my entire (woodworking) knowledge base is from this forum. If any moderators read this I would love to have a 'like' button to click on each thread, I know its nice to leave comments, but I always feel a bit stupid interrupting the thread to say thats nice and not having anything else sensible to say
Tom
