Thread: Hard Maple and Jarrah side tables - part 1

Looks nice. That tapering jig though...dunno if I'd be that brave.
Looking forward to seeing the final product.

yes, the tapering of the upper joint in the leg even had me slightly nervous. I minimised the chances of having a mishap by rough cutting the shape on the bandsaw first so that the wedge offcut didn't jam between the slider and table. I did have another shot looking looking from behind parallel to the blade. You can actually see my glove rubbing against the blade, and because of this I uhm'ed and ah'ed for a while and decided to not only 'not' post the footage, but to also remove the footage completely so I can never be tempted to post it. For the lack of being willing to spend time to make a decent jig, I surely do put my fingers in harms way much too often. It will make a good, gory, video 'when' things go wrong, but knowing my luck it will happen when I am setting up with the camera turned off

Excellent work, great video and I've now got machine envy Looking forward to part 2.

machine envy...no way!

I need to swap out my garbage machinery and replace it with big bad 10hp+ beasts. And after that, I need to fill in all the gaps like a wide belt sander, oscillating edge sander, round end slot morticer, round end tenoner, 3600x1200 CNC etc etc. ya know...the bare minimum basics

Machine envy? I nearly went out and shot myself when I saw that set up

Originally Posted by Kuffy

machine envy...no way!

I need to swap out my garbage machinery and replace it with big bad 10hp+ beasts. And after that, I need to fill in all the gaps like a wide belt sander, oscillating edge sander, round end slot morticer, round end tenoner, 3600x1200 CNC etc etc. ya know...the bare minimum basics

Yup, 10hp German/Italian or bust :P

Get a 5-axis machine and you don't need the morticer and tenoner. Add a 4-side moulder and a wide belt sander and you can throw out everything else

Yup, a 5 axis CNC is definitely a must have. And it must come with a full array of profile cutters and matching profile sanding heads

When I taper on the panel saw, I actually stand on the other side of not just the table, but the fence as well; left hand pushes the jig, right hand reaches over to hold the work. That way I can see exactly where everything is, I'm not reaching awkwardly over/around the overhead guard and if anything gets shot backwards I'm not in the way.

It does feel a bit weird at first, especially being right-handed, but you get used to it pretty quickly

That is brilliant Elan. I never stand on the other side of the rip fence because it is just so awkward, and it doesn't enter my mind for a moment. But for the purposes of tapering it will work incredibly well. It's kind of obvious now

My thumbs might last another decade yet

3:40 to 3:45 looks disturbing

You are obviously a serious woodworker so why are you still dicking around with dowels. Go get yourself a domino.

There is nothing unsavoury going on between 3:40-3:45. Im just trying to get a rise out of the machine before I turn it on.

The domino is too expensive. I would like one, it's the only festool product which actually has a reason to have 'festool pricing' attached to it. For the most part I use real mortise and tenon, but the domino would make short work of the mortising for me. Ill get one when someone wants me to make a set of 6-8 chairs for them.