Thread: Blackwood dining table

Looks good so far; the scalopping is nice.
I finished a dining table and matching coffee table last year; I had the legs turned when my son was born. He has turned 27 now! I hope it doesn't take you that long.
Mark

Nicely done you should be very happy with your effort for just the second piece you've ever made you have produced a piece anyone would be proud to own well done.
Regards Rod.

That looks great!!

A lot of wor using hand tools. Tell me did the plane blades dull quickly? Blackwood is usually murder on edges.

Originally Posted by artme

That looks great!!

A lot of wor using hand tools. Tell me did the plane blades dull quickly? Blackwood is usually murder on edges.

Thanks everyone. It was a major job, still is, I'm trying to get the shallacing done, it leaves some dull spots and I've had to sand it back. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f9/dul...5/#post1642987


The plane blades seemed to hold an edge. The wood is quite hard, but the planes cut through it well after a good sharpen. I did have to sharpen the smoothing plane ultra sharp so there was no tear out on some of the troublesome bits. Some planks had the grain change direction a couple of times and this was murder on trying to get it smooth.

Looks really good and I can feel the pain in the arms from all that plane work.
Regards
John

good work there, like has already been said, that's a lot of planing!

Originally Posted by shedbound

good work there, like has already been said, that's a lot of planing!

indeed, a LOT of planing, and I enjoyed most of it

It has come up well for only the second piece. Now lets not get carried away and have two projects on at the same time.

As with everything in life we do have distraction and some of them can be quite joyful.

Great work, Corey, and beautiful timber. Good to see all those shavings lying around. I haven't done a dining table yet but it is on the todo list.

Don't want to hijack your work, this is the coffee and dining tables I made after carrying around the legs for 20+ years.
Jarrah leg base and Blackheart Sassafrass tops
Mark

Oops I noticed that in the background you can still see the possible colour changes my wife has planned for the walls

Hi Mark, love the top, very interesting grain.

heres mine, finally finished and ready to come into the house:


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Originally Posted by 3 toed sloth

Great work, Corey, and beautiful timber. Good to see all those shavings lying around. I haven't done a dining table yet but it is on the todo list.

I found it to be a huge project, mainly in finding the time to do it. It's relatively straight forward design wise, once you've worked out how you want it to look, but putting it all together, especially the top, you've just got to be prepared for a lot of repetitive work, and getting the planks to join, geez, that was painstaking.

But, in the end, I cant help but look at the finished table and think how beautiful it looks, all the more so because I made it. Hell of a lot better than going to some chinese import furniture shop and paying through the nose for a factory sprayed table that seems to look like it might fit into the decor . . . if you know what I mean. My table will pass onto the kid . . . simply because I made it, it has meaning. Same as his toybox:

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f187/b...-table-146198/

it says dining table, but this is where I started the table, realised it was a huge job, and made something smaller, the toybox. I came back to the table a year later . . .

Originally Posted by cor55

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https://www.woodworkforums.com/f187/b...-table-146198/

it says dining table, but this is where I started the table, realised it was a huge job, and made something smaller, the toybox. I came back to the table a year later . . .

For those of us that followed the original thread and now the secondary thread this is more like a table.