• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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    Setting a Mortice Gauge?

    Charlie, knifed marks or, as you term them "incised", do not need to be scratched. Scratching is for a point. Japanese knives are bevel shaped. That means that the indent is on the inside of the boundary wall. This creates a knife wall, which aids in registering a chisel. Regards from Perth Derek
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    Setting a Mortice Gauge?

    I have a different method. Note that, while the mortise gauge below is a Japanese cutting gauge, it would apply equally to a gauge using pins. This is taken from my website .... I laid out the 3 ¼” wide boards to create a tenon cheek 2 ¾” wide - that is, the length of the rail less a ¼”...
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    Dining table - revisited

    Danke se, Phil. I am now preparing the 200 year old Cape Yellow- and Stinkwood table this one replaced for my son and DIL. Regards from Perth Derek
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    Dining table - revisited

    Some feedbck on the strength and rigidity of the table. This follows a dinner party last night, where guests danced on the table top, used the edges to do push ups, and then proceeded to lean on their elbows while eating. Okay, so only the last bit is true. My aim was to build a table with...
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    Dining table - revisited

    Nick, it was a concern of mine from the start, although this is not the first trestle table I have built. Is there some movement? Yes - there is a smidgeon of flex at the edges. After all this is a trestle table and it is not supported at all four corners. Is it a concern? My wife considers...
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    Dining table - revisited

    This is a large post, with many photos, and it takes up to the conclusion of this build. There have been many small details in the design and execution which, when added together, create the final piece. My wife just loves it, and I'm quite pleased myself, so I am happy to share the details for...
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    Dining table - revisited

    Adrian, please do add photos. My content is to create discussion. A question for all: As the top rails are rounded and I want to preserve their sleekness, I have decided not to use button blocks to attach the table top, but slotted holes (for movement) through the rails, and screwing into the...
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    Dining table - revisited

    Time to begin the table top. This will end up 1840mm long and 900mm wide, with curved sides. Whoever thought that using machines saved all the grunt work clearly has never built a large table top that started with 2" thick x 10" wide x 6 1/2 feet of Rock Maple! Carrying this around on my own...
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    Dining table - revisited

    I have always found glueing up far more stressful than cutting the parts and planing them to fit precisely. My fear is always that something will move and the result will be a mis-match of parts. The additional concern is that the joinery may not be strong enough, and that my insistence on not...
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    Dining table - revisited

    Video added of planing an elliptical taper ... [video=youtube;rWNo0QpAh9Q] Regards from Perth Derek
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    Dining table - revisited

    Adrian, Jarrah is all those things: harder than maple, the stuff I am working is very interlocked and apt to tear out, coarse grained and needing much refining to achieve a smooth finish, hard on blades, but tough and stiff, which is ideal for legs, and can end up very beautiful with a mix of...
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    Dining table - revisited

    The last two structural areas for the base were the central rail, which was also planed into an ellipse ... ... and the upper, support rails ... These also required tapering, which I shall not go through again here. Instead, I will move to the completed - but dry and unfinished - trestle...
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    Dining table - revisited

    Mainly because I realised that table legs, whatever the design, conflicted with the chair legs. For legs to disappear, they need to have similar angles. My solution was to avoid table legs. Then it became a priority to design the trestle to be as sympathetic with the DC 09 chairs. You can tell...
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    Dining table - revisited

    Time to turn that thick blocky base into a shapely, organic foot for the post. It needs to be said that I binned the first feet I shaped as they ended up too thick looking. I want slim. I realised that a reason for this was that the blocky base was not wide enough (at 80mm), and so I built new...
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    Dining table - revisited

    Time to re-visit the dining table, and move in a new direction. I have design, this time, a trestle table. The design is aimed at complimenting the (DC 09) chairs. To do this, in part the table legs must reduce clutter, which is the advantage of a trestle table ... the legs are tucked out of the...
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    Dining Table

    Thanks all for the effort to which you have gone with critical thinking and build suggestions. Comments here, and elsewhere, have helped identify some of the risk issues, such as whether the leg joinery will hold up over time. As much as I am designing for myself and not others, and have spent...
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    Dining Table

    Thanks for the feedback so far. Just a few comments, partly to summarise my thinking. The aprons, per se, are not an issue as they will be connected to the table top, and together this creates a rigid construction. My concern is to avoid any twist in the legs, which is complicated by the...
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    Dining Table

    No, the joint is not compromised. For a start, the bolt hole is threaded and extends well past the mortises. Secondly, the strength of the joint does not rely on the mortises. They are partly to align and partly to support, but do this together. Regards from Perth Derek
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    Dining Table

    Thanks Ian. The legs will not have a taper, splay or curve. Just remain a straight cylinder. This is deliberate as it is the "quietest" design among chairs which are curvy, and near other furniture with curves. More curves will simply overwhelm. My aim is to find a balance, and that this will...
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    Dining Table

    Thanks for the ideas. Much appreciated. One length-wise stretcher may be added, attached with a sliding dovetail at each end. I anticipate that it will not be needed since the 30mm thick top in Rock Maple should be stiff enough to dance on. The Jarrah legs, similarly, have more meat in them...
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