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Breakfast Table (European Oak)

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Re: Breakfast Table (European Oak)

Postby Jimmy Mack » 24 Jul 2017, 16:00

Waiting for clearance, but this is what I'm hoping to go with...ImageImage

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Re: Breakfast Table (European Oak)

Postby Pinch » 24 Jul 2017, 18:41

Jim, have you muttered any swear words? :x
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Re: Breakfast Table (European Oak)

Postby Jimmy Mack » 24 Jul 2017, 21:20

Pinch wrote:Jim, have you muttered any swear words? :x
A couple... I dropped a few when I discovered the crack in the top!

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Re: Breakfast Table (European Oak)

Postby Rod » 24 Jul 2017, 22:52

A bit like the early Victorian Engineers - trial and error.

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Re: Breakfast Table (European Oak)

Postby Jimmy Mack » 26 Jul 2017, 11:15

Here we go...clamp, clamp, clamp.... first two infills...

I've scrapped back the edges of the legs to receive the glue on the mitres of the infills... And connected the opposing infills on doweled centre blocks...

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(Sapele lumps taking the clamps)

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Re: Breakfast Table (European Oak)

Postby Andyp » 26 Jul 2017, 12:35

The solution looks very neat. Shame the hollowness of the central leg will be lost but I guess there is no other way.
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Re: Breakfast Table (European Oak)

Postby Tusses » 26 Jul 2017, 16:35

ooh ooh ... just had another idea ! :oops:

drop a large dowel/cylindar down the centre of the legs :-)
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Re: Breakfast Table (European Oak)

Postby Jimmy Mack » 26 Jul 2017, 19:04

Andyp wrote:The solution looks very neat. Shame the hollowness of the central leg will be lost but I guess there is no other way.
Indeed, I quite liked that too... pushing the envelope too much

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Re: Breakfast Table (European Oak)

Postby Jimmy Mack » 26 Jul 2017, 19:06

Tusses wrote:ooh ooh ... just had another idea ! :oops:

drop a large dowel/cylindar down the centre of the legs :-)
I wondered about something like this, along the lines of a guitar truss rod, which could be tensioned.

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Re: Breakfast Table (European Oak)

Postby Tusses » 26 Jul 2017, 19:11

Jimmy Mack wrote:
Tusses wrote:ooh ooh ... just had another idea ! :oops:

drop a large dowel/cylindar down the centre of the legs :-)
I wondered about something like this, along the lines of a guitar truss rod, which could be tensioned.

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no , I know what you mean, but I was thinking of a cylinder that filled completely the gap between the lags, making it one solid pedestal . but without the flat surfaces you now have .. I know it's too late, but something for the ole memory banks :-)
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Re: Breakfast Table (European Oak)

Postby Jimmy Mack » 26 Jul 2017, 19:11

Well she's all ready for delivery... Absolutely zero wibble wobble... I shared the wobble video with the customer with the proposed mod... The lady joked about the potential for auto stirring the tea! Ha!


I'll try and bag a few shots when it's in.... As it's a lovely house.

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Re: Breakfast Table (European Oak)

Postby Jimmy Mack » 26 Jul 2017, 19:14

Tusses wrote:
Jimmy Mack wrote:
Tusses wrote:ooh ooh ... just had another idea ! :oops:

drop a large dowel/cylindar down the centre of the legs :-)
I wondered about something like this, along the lines of a guitar truss rod, which could be tensioned.

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no , I know what you mean, but I was thinking of a cylinder that filled completely the gap between the lags, making it one solid pedestal . but without the flat surfaces you now have .. I know it's too late, but something for the ole memory banks :-)
Ah I see... glue up unfortunately stopped me from getting a lump in the middle... An octogan would of looked cool too.

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Re: Breakfast Table (European Oak)

Postby Jimmy Mack » 26 Jul 2017, 19:17

Just noticed....I need to empty my extractor bags!

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Re: Breakfast Table (European Oak)

Postby Pinch » 27 Jul 2017, 08:11

I bet that was a bit fiddly - lovely result Jim! 8-)
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Re: Breakfast Table (European Oak)

Postby Jimmy Mack » 27 Jul 2017, 19:58

Pinch wrote:I bet that was a bit fiddly - lovely result Jim! 8-)
It Bloomington was fella... The last two infills in particular... Trying to line up my dowels to the blocks...

Delivering tomorrow, so I shall be putting my posh frock on try and look like a furniture maker instead of a tramp covered in saw dust.

What should a furniture maker look like? There's a discussion

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Re: Breakfast Table (European Oak)

Postby TrimTheKing » 27 Jul 2017, 20:02

Lovely work Jim. Shame about the twanginess as I liked the hollow leg look but a good fix.

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