Jhalfa
Established Member
I had a week off work last week and finally got around to turning a couple of rough sawn planks of american black walnut into a coffee table to replace a horrid IKEA thing. Here is the result:
The wood was fairly easy to work, but did move all over the place when cut so my triceps got a very good workout from all the planing. The rest of the wood in the room is mahogany so I decided to warm the walnut up with linseed oil followed by button polish and wax.
I would have made it more fancy, but I don't have a lathe to turn legs. I also assume that it is much easier to make tapers on a table saw (which I don't have) then it is on the bandsaw that I do have.
What did make it much easier was the fact that I had just taken delivery of a Tormek and used it to sharpen my chisels and planes - now I see why people rave about the Tormek! It was like someone had bought me new planes and chisels
Hope you like to table anyway!
Regards
Jonathan
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The wood was fairly easy to work, but did move all over the place when cut so my triceps got a very good workout from all the planing. The rest of the wood in the room is mahogany so I decided to warm the walnut up with linseed oil followed by button polish and wax.
I would have made it more fancy, but I don't have a lathe to turn legs. I also assume that it is much easier to make tapers on a table saw (which I don't have) then it is on the bandsaw that I do have.
What did make it much easier was the fact that I had just taken delivery of a Tormek and used it to sharpen my chisels and planes - now I see why people rave about the Tormek! It was like someone had bought me new planes and chisels
Hope you like to table anyway!
Regards
Jonathan