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30th October 2021, 02:46 PM #1GOLD MEMBER
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round cylinder base for tables
How would you guys go about making something the base of something like this (say 600mm wide):
Round Gathering Table | Gathering Table | Timber Table | Nomi
I thought of:
Make a jig that is basically a huge lathe with a router doing the cutting and rotating the cylinder by hand long a shaft that is a fixed distance away from the router bit
Using handplane or electric hand planer
Surely there is a smarter way to do it?
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30th October 2021, 04:33 PM #2China
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Just make up round discs, (various methods) then wrap them in what ever you wish the finish to be
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30th October 2021, 04:45 PM #3
Same way he did it on your link would be easier and use a lot less wood - just a veneer or bendy-ply skin wrapped around a simple frame
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30th October 2021, 06:06 PM #4GOLD MEMBER
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Like a veneer? What if you wanted to use something that isnt available in veneer form?
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Can you get this stuff in bendy ply?
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30th October 2021, 09:05 PM #5GOLD MEMBER
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a long watch but this guy did it:
basically attachs screening to fabric and attaches that to some circle frames.
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31st October 2021, 07:57 AM #6GOLD MEMBER
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This similar in look i suppose but totally different in construction if one were to make what I originally posted in solid timber.
Heres an example of it being done in solid timber:
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31st October 2021, 05:48 PM #7
I'd simply cooper it. Just a matter of cutting the appropriate bevels on long boards, cut them to length, lay them out flat and tape them together on the outside, flip the assembly over, put glue into each joint, bring the ends together and tape them tightly and let the whole lot dry.
plane the corners round, and there you go.
There are quite a few calculators on the web, search for coopering calculator, and find one that suits.
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Or you could consider buying these - Whiteside joinery router bits - and round off the edges.
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1st November 2021, 07:13 AM #10GOLD MEMBER
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i'm pretty sure he mentions it in the video
and in the video description/text
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2nd November 2021, 07:47 AM #11SENIOR MEMBER
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Me too. You can imagine how heavy solid timber would be.
The design would need a serious counterweight in the base for stability, a bit like the Saarinen/Knoll designs. saarinen tulip table - Google Search
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2nd November 2021, 07:38 PM #12Senior Member
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Coopering is the way to go for something like that.
I'm doing a long flitch table with live edges & needed a couple of "hollow burnt logs" to be the support columns
These are coopered & just under 400mm diameter. Coopering is pretty easy on a good tablesaw.
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The inside will get burnt, like shoshyugi ban style & "roots" & "branches' added. The outside smoothed off.
Have fun with it.
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9th November 2021, 08:59 PM #13GOLD MEMBER
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Ah - I was already thinking this originally - didnt know it was called 'coopering'. Probably should have mentioned it in my OP. My question was more about how to get rid of the corners
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