Thread: round cylinder base for tables

Just make up round discs, (various methods) then wrap them in what ever you wish the finish to be

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

Originally Posted by China

Just make up round discs, (various methods) then wrap them in what ever you wish the finish to be

Like a veneer? What if you wanted to use something that isnt available in veneer form?

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Originally Posted by TTIT

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

Can you get this stuff in bendy ply?
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a long watch but this guy did it:



basically attachs screening to fabric and attaches that to some circle frames.

Originally Posted by havabeer69

a long watch but this guy did it:



basically attachs screening to fabric and attaches that to some circle frames.

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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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.

Originally Posted by havabeer69

a long watch but this guy did it:

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What is the finish that the bloke in the video clip applies?

Or you could consider buying these - Whiteside joinery router bits - and round off the edges.

Originally Posted by rod1949

What is the finish that the bloke in the video clip applies?

i'm pretty sure he mentions it in the video
and in the video description/text

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Originally Posted by AlexS

I'd simply cooper it.

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

mick

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.

Alli

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