Thread: A brace of Walnut tilt-top tables

The Walnut for one of the tops was planed and rub-jointed with Tsar bond. I then needlessly added a security clamp to the already stuck joint (my excuse was that it was travelling in the back of a car with an unsecured barber’s chair...). It’s now in the round ready for the edge to be shaped.

The first set of legs (in Regia) have also been roughly cut to size. However, I’ve since decided (with some gentle prompting from this forum's arbiter of all things Georgian) that the knees were too brazen. The French curves have been broken out to adjust the line.

Progress has been especially slow this week as most of my spare time has been taken up with gleaning this Walnut tree (along with collecting a rather fine Woodfast lathe for the AP). Now my arms have returned to their normal length, I trust that things will speed up a little.

Originally Posted by Blue-deviled

The first set of legs (in Regia) have also been roughly cut to size. However, I’ve since decided (with some gentle prompting from this forum's arbiter of all things Georgian) that the knees were too brazen.

I merely opined that the legs looked very 'Shrek', at which you took huge offence and modified their shape. Granted, I wasn't too "gentle" in my summation, but you wielded the axe, not me.

The top looks nice and round though.

Originally Posted by Woodwould

I merely opined that the legs looked very 'Shrek', at which you took huge offence and modified their shape. Granted, I wasn't too "gentle" in my summation, but you wielded the axe, not me.

The top looks nice and round though.

If it had been huge offence the legs would have been modified with the Weber!

Does this explain the shotgun pellets? An argument on aesthetics.
cheers,
Jim

After finally recovering from a spell of slave labour helping shift a walnut tree, I got back to the shed and started on the second column. A few awkward inclusions but the colour and hardness is much better than the first one giving a better finish. I'll get them to BD to attach the legs and collect one of the tops and the base for my 'new' lathe from him. At the moment I'm stretching a Record Power RPML 300 with a home-made extension bed.
Cheers,
Jim

What a good daddy! In that second image, the column looks like it's giving you the Evil Eye.

[QUOTE=Woodwould;1222014In that second image, the column looks like it's giving you the Evil Eye.[/QUOTE]
I did wonder.
Cheers,
Jim

Originally Posted by Woodwould

What a good daddy! In that second image, the column looks like it's giving you the Evil Eye.

That's when you need Ward chisels...

Dear oh dear...

Strange happenings when the revs reached 666. Damped down with holy water and carried on.
We have decided to make one of the tops in English elm. Should go nicely with the walnut.
Next week I have to get on with turning the eight spindles for the birdcage and hopefully I have the round walnut blank for the top by then.
Jim

[QUOTE=jimbur;1223333]Damped down with holy water and carried on.
Have you taken on the role of the clergy . I know what "holy water" is but what is woodturner's holy water.

Ah Peter, I think the vestments would get in the way
The sweat of my brow is all I can offer.
Cheers,
Jim

After giving the knees a more modest aspect and reshaping the outline, I couldn’t resist inflicting a pair of rasps onto one of the legs. I’d nipped out during my ‘lunch break’ on Friday and had a look around the Melbourne instalment of the Wood Show. Aside from a lump of ‘ebony’, I grabbed a few $5 rasps from one of the stands. Two passing handles later, and they do remove Walnut at a grate rate of knots...

I’ll be meeting the Jimbur at a abandoned tennis court North-West of Melbourne tomorrow for an exchange of pedestals and tops. With these in hand I can move along to the marking out, and the shaping of the legs proper.

Well this is a bit of fun. Only just picked up on it but will be watching with keen interest. Would love to get my hands on some Walnut one day.
Anyway keep up the great work and excellent commentary. Let the shotgun pellets fly.

CH