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Progress on table

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Posted about this in the past:
table 1.jpg
"Dry fit at this stage when I took this picture, but all cleaned up today and ready for paint, made using Tulip wood, legs, bottom stretcher and diagonals are 95mm square section, the top stretcher and rails are 95 X 55mm.

Bit of a job to move it as one, so I have made the end frames as one, with the other parts morticed & tenoned/lap joint into their respective connections, I’ve also put in some threaded inserts which will hold it all together once its delivered.

Clients looking for a “rustic” top, so that’s yet to be finalised, but reclaimed scaffold boards have been mentioned!"

Moving on, legs are all painted but in store, further to client consultations, I picked up the timber for the top today:

table tops.jpg table tops1.jpg

From the reclaim yard..
 
We all agree on the choice, but not mine to make.

duke said:
What is the overall size to be?
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This was the plan:

table.png

But I’m going to thick edge the top, double it up, and fit some cross supports underneath, now.

I just know they’re going to move and twist, but when I did a quick moisture check they were between 9 & 11%, so not far off the mark.
 
Nice. (y)

I'd agree re the use of scaffold boards but if it's their choice.... The main issue I found with them is that they often contain nails which get hammered in rather than removed and are usually contaminated with stone and brick dust as well as sometimes metal from using a grinder or stihlsaw. I certainly wouldn't be cleaning them up using anything with a blade.
 
I think I'd be looking at this timber for the top slightly differently and trying to divert the clients to a more suitable timber that could be made distressed as if it was scaffolding boards. *Possibly you've already tried such an approach Paul?

At the end of the day the clients pay so call the shots... Frame is looking great 👍
 
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