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5th February 2024, 07:00 PM #1
Coffee Table for our daughter's birthday - pretty big for a toymaker
Back in November 2023 "Living Timber" in Penrith were have a clean out sale of offcut as they got ready for a reorganization of their business and premises.
I was able to purchase a few red coloured timber offcut for my toymaking from their "bargain bin" very cheaply.
Just I was about to the the owner Dean came out with two large-ish benchtop offcuts, asking could I do something with these, they're free.
I said "THANK YOU" very much putting them into the boot of my car.
They were somewhat unusual in shape but after some thinking/pondering; I thought I could actually just the two pieces together to make a large rectangular table top.
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It took some effort but worked well using a double row of biscuits and "Titebond 3" plus some "Starbond CA" to fill the imperfections. .
But how to do legs for all this "Spotted Gum" at 32" [800mm] x 24" [600mm] x 1.5" [40mm] thick table top?
The ends are sealed with a strip of "American Oak" from offcut I got from Peter at "Pittwater Joinery".
Then we cleaned out our small garden shed to local a number of old chairs that had come from my father-in-law some 15yrs ago.
So now I had legs, just had to clean the up without destroying them and work out how to fix them.
I recessed the tops of the chair legs into the base of the tabletop setting them in place with "Ice Epoxy Resin".
The sides of the chair were they are tenoned into the legs were not square so I had to allow for the that when gluing them and reinforcing the base, which is all locked together.
The finish is my homemade "wipe-on-poly"; 4 coats on the top with only 3 on the underside.
As far as a birthday gift, it's late, but it's now completed [weighs a ton!]
Cheers crowie
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Great to repurpose materials and looks really nice should get a lot of use from it.
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7th February 2024, 09:35 PM #3
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