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  1. 3rd April 2006, 04:47 PM #1
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    Hi guys - total newbie here. Just finished my first table. Myself and the neighbour put it together. Top is a solid, just over 3m Jarrah slab and just over 1m at it's widest point). Legs were some old Jarrah found at my wifes Nanna's farm and put through a thicknesser and sanded. Simple as that - there wasn't much joinery involved - just a few dowels in the legs.

    Timber was finished with 5 coats of wattyl oil based estapol which I sprayed on. The top got a light sanding after coats 1 and 3. The legs got a light sanding after coat 2 only. Yes I know I probably should have used a better product, but it is an outdoor table and I didn't want it to be soooooooo perfect you were afraid to touch it for fear of scratching.

    There are a few deepish cracks and splits too - instead of puttying them up, we filled them with a casting and embedding resin - it gives a glass like finish so you can actually see "inside" the table in places too.

    Sorry about the pics - it is really hard to get a good pic of the top - the reflection of the sun and the satin finish make it hard.
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    Welcome aboard Pogue! We don't don't grow trees big enough for a slab that size in this part of the country - show-off! What sort of gear did you use to surface the slab?

    PS: Are you one of the yob's christening it in the last pic?
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  4. 3rd April 2006, 05:25 PM #3
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    That's one hell of a slab. Looks good, and I don't think it will go anywhere in a strong wind.
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  5. 3rd April 2006, 05:31 PM #4
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    Noice table.....

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  6. 3rd April 2006, 05:37 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by TTIT
    Welcome aboard Pogue! We don't don't grow trees big enough for a slab that size in this part of the country - show-off! What sort of gear did you use to surface the slab?

    PS: Are you one of the yob's christening it in the last pic?
    Yeah I am the one on the right. The bloke on the left is the neighbor.

    It weighs a ton - we carried it over in 2 pieces. The legs are 1 bit and the top the other. They are just bolted together.

    We just used belt sanders and lots of elbow grease, the neighbour also has some fandangled attachment to a drill. It turns it into a rotary sander but you don't have to keep the drill exactly upright - it sort of swivels - apparently originally bought from Qld. Thats as technical as I get - sorry - started with 40 sand paper and actually got down to 400, then decided 400 was too much so resanded with 250.

    All in all it took around 20 - 30 hours all done after hours 2 or 3 hours per night.
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    Nice Table! It's an absolute beauty

    It looks as though you'll have many a good night around that one.

    Cheers, Evan
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    Cool

    A lump of wood that impressive doesn't need any fancy joinery to look good.

    I've going to make a similar table out of a lump of Macrocarpa cypress I've had drying in the shed for a couple of years. I use a router mounted on my portable sawmill to machine the tops level, then switch to a belt sander with 80 grit to remove the router marks, and then work up to 180. I've done some smaller tables / bartops to see how it works out and am just completing a couple of other projects before I start the big one.

    The Mac isn't as heavy as Jarrah, but I'm going to be making it in 2 sections too

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    The guy I bought this off lives a few km's away.

    He just sells slabs - he has portable mill and is in cohorts with the developers. When they develop a new housing estate he goes in beforehand and mills alls all the trees.

    He only deals in Marri and Jarrah. All the timber is stacked out the front and back of his house. My only concern with this slab is we couldn't get a moisture content reading. So all I can do is keep an eye on it. If it starts to split badly, I have no idea what I am going to do.
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    Sorry but I'll have to reject it... give it to me give it to me.
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    Bit of Aussie slab furniture, few beers to be had around that.
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    What a beautiful table, awsome. The satin finish looks really good.
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    Nice table there PM!

    Just the right level of simplicity and not overkill with finishing or joinery. Excellent!

    Cheers!

    PS PM = KMA if you know any Gaelic!?
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    Thats a nice table you have made there Pogue, welcome to the forum. Hope its dry enough for you and does not change much.

    Regards Mike
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    A table you can be proud of, well done.
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    Last time I saw such a piece of wood was in Tokyo, 150,000 Yen ($1500).
    Very nice work PM.
    And you are telling me you don’t know how to start….

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