WIP - Changing table

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Mekkemikkel

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My first real wood project in the new workshop was a changing table for our latest offspring.
I have some goat willow from a tree that I chopped down in my parents garden, and wanted to see how that worked out.

I also wanted to practice working with hand tools and incorporated lots of m&t joints and through wedged tenons on the short rails.

I started with some designing in sketchup, and this is the final design approved by the customer:

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Here are the hand cut mortises in three of the stiles done. I found that goat willow is brittle and not the easiest wood to work with.

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I drilled a hole in each leg, and epoxyed in a nut that will anchor the wheels.

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The nuts will be hidden behind the tapered feet. I made a simple jig to make the feet on the table saw.

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I glued the feet to each leg, and gave them a round of sanding.

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Next up I made all the tenons for the rails on the routertable.

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There are two shelves with slats under the table and I had to find a way to route the mortises for these. After hand cutting about 40 mortises in the legs, I couldn't be bothered hand cutting 72 more, so I made this jig :

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Something moved a bit while routing, but the slight mistakes will be hidden by the tenon shoulders.

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Then I used the router table to copy the curves on each rail

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Glue up of one side frame

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While the glue set, I started making all the slats for the shelves. 36 of them, planed, routed tenons, and edges rounded over on the router.

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Then I glued up the panel for the top. Weighted down to keep it flat!

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The short rails have wedged tenons, so I cut and drilled notches for some oak wedges, and started the easy glue up.....

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And then the big glue up!

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The customer is visiting my shop and inspecting the progress, he seems quite happy!

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Ready for finishing

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I sprayed two coats of a waterbased semigloss lacquer on this. I would prefer an oil finish, but settled with lacquer to make it easy to clean up any «accidents»....

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Thanks for watching! :)
 
That is really nice, mate!

Any troubles drying out the goat willow?
I have some currently in my garage, which i intended to use for small woodturning, but it's split something terrible...
 
Good work. Looks like your new workshop is working well for you. :wink: I like the mortising jig. Water-based lacquer is great stuff indeed, even though it takes a bit longer to dry than the others.
 
xy mosian":39d09ud3 said:
You have an interesting way of getting 'customers' :)
xy

Its quite fun to get them, but hard work to keep them happy! :lol:


Henning":39d09ud3 said:
That is really nice, mate!

Any troubles drying out the goat willow?
I have some currently in my garage, which i intended to use for small woodturning, but it's split something terrible...

It didn't split to much, but I did get lots of twist and warps. Lots of waste and I had to compromise on the dimensions on the table.
 
Lovely job. Bet that glue up was a nightmare with all those slats!
 
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