Thread: A hall table

I'll be the first to sit down and watch.

Looks good Waldo! Just grabbing my chair

Waldo, I would have the 2 drawers and remove the layer on top of them. It will make the table look lighter and more elegant. It should be a good one.

Ah, but Wongo the top layer isn't a drawer.

What is it?

My twin brother, the top will be hinged and house 12 bottles of vino.

Nice idea Waldo. What about reversing the bottle-o and the draws?
Tapered and curved legs, me thinks a jig or two is in the offing.
Also pulling up a seat and settling in.

Cooktown Ironwood!?

I'll keep a few band-aids in reserve...

Only thing NCArcher is if I reversed things it would make the drawers very heavy I'd reckon.

Yep, a jig is in the pipeline. I've got it sussed out thanks to some reference I found at FWW. Just got to pick up a few things and I'll be right. 2tsup:

I've run out of band-aids in the shed, but I'll get some more from the First Aid kit, I run out of them pretty quickly at times. :I've got one pair of welding gloves I've been using. You got a pair of riggers gloves or something?

Some shots of the start of some progress will come in the next day or two.

Watching.

Waldo,

I hope the 12 bottles are gonna be consecutive years of Grange

The people I'll be offering it to enjoy a drop of wine, but I can't see them shelling out for 12 consecutive bottles of Grange.

It was a down and dirty arvo today. Lots of dust everywhere, and with a air filtration unit on the blink I've got dust everywhere in the shed.

With some help this arvo from Skew, who without his help it wouldn't have got done. Why? Because Cooktown I/wood is damn heavy.

After Skew attacked the slabs and roughly docked them with his lecky chainsaw, the next order was re-sawing two slabs down for the legs. We ran each bit on one edge, whacked in some packers (kerf width of the saw blade) in the cut so when we flipped it end over end to do the opposite face that it didn't collapse on itself. Once those two cuts were made we passed it through the b/saw to finish the re-sawing.

The next part was to dimension the larger slabs down to 60 x 60mm for the legs (later to be shaped using jigs on the r/table) getting two was easy and one showed real promise with some very nice grain (3rd shot)

The problem with the slabs that there were hidden splits throughout the timber, so getting 2 more legs was a bit tricky, but we got there. There will be two legs (front) with some real nice grain, the back legs will be more of a straight grain. But with some luck when the legs are shaped some real nice grain might pop out.

Not having used C/town I/wood before, a few months a go I ran a test piece (4th shot) through the thicky and ran it over with the ROS from 240 through to 1200 grit paper and then gave it 4 coats of Danish Oil. I was happily impressed. The second idea behind the test piece was also to try and work out what sort of grain I could end up. End on I had no idea what I could end up, but with the grain I could see what might happen.

Next up I'm going to do a test run with the thicky, given the timber is tougher than your Grandma's army boots I might end up having the stuff run through a drum sander to final thickness. The legs are already done off the c/saw with a very aggressive Ake blade, which I'm very happy with the finish it left. Mind you it probably needs a sharpen very soon now. it was sharp as before I started this arvo. The blade on the b/saw will need re-sharpening too.

The Ake blade stalled twice and the 3/4" 3tpi blade on the b/saw once.

I've worked out I'll shape the legs using two jigs on the r/table using an Xtreme Xtension to get the height I'll need. This will take me a bit as the second of the two jigs will be tricky to make but doable.

We downed 2 coffees each this arvo, next tme I think it will call for a few as we ponder and lean (I was also at the wrong end of the c/saw and ended up with a snoz full of brown/red stuff) ,otherwise it's just a dry argument.

For all I had there wasn't much to show when it was all cut up, some went to waste but I'll get every mm out of it that I can.

Originally Posted by Waldo

I was also at the wrong end of the c/saw and ended up with a snoz full of brown/red stuff

Why do you think I like tailing out?

Be careful of that dust; it's nasty stuff.

My eyes are still in their sockets and my nose is still attached, so so far so good.