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8th December 2006, 12:56 PM #1
A couple of tables
I spent a couple of weeks making these two tables. They have no pretensions to be heirlooms, but should do the job as a TV/coffee table, and as a children's colouring table. The TV table is jarrah, built with domino joinery. The boards of its shelf are ship-lapped and each screwed, but not glued, with a screw at either end into a rebate in the rails. The panels on the ends were raised using a vertical panel-raising bit.
The colouring table is made of hoop pine; its shelves are set in dadoes and are reinforced by rails joined to the sides with domino joinery, and glued with techniglue epoxy.
Both tables are finished with three coats of gloss polyurethane, to give a hard-wearing finish.
They will be sent over to rellies in England with a set of zigzag chairs, to console them for the humiliations they are suffering in the Ashes tests
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8th December 2006, 01:02 PM #2
What a great way to rub in some ashes with some beautiful woodwork - are you going to wrap them in sack cloth?
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8th December 2006, 01:40 PM #3I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
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8th December 2006, 02:13 PM #4
Excellent work there D, I like the raised panels.
I just realised a huge downside of Domino joinery - you can't see how cool it is! I was about to make a wee ply box the other day for the new portable DVD that would've had exposed Domi's - but an old soft briefcase was perfect for it instead . Another time.The only way to get rid of a [Domino] temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde
.....so go4it people!
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8th December 2006, 03:16 PM #5
Martrix,
It not only felt much quicker - it was much quicker using the Domino. Each mortice only takes 10 seconds or so to cut, and you don't have to fiddle with cutting tenons, rounding their ends and fine-tuning their fit.
I get a local furniture removalist to pack and send stuff overseas. A set of four chairs and the two tables will probable cost about $900 to send by sea, including insurance. I air-freighted my rolltop desk and blanket chest, plus a large picture to Colorado; that cost about $4000, but the recipient was paying the freight
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9th December 2006, 08:35 PM #6
Beautiful work, love the tv table
Brett
Only Robinson Crusoe could get everything done by Friday!
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9th December 2006, 09:30 PM #7
Looks very light in colour if it's Jarrah. Not doubting you at all DD but it has come up beautifully.
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10th December 2006, 03:46 AM #8
Jarrah can be very variable, anything from medium red to very dark brown. I try to go for the lighter red-coloured stuff when I can get it, but sometimes (as with this table's top) you have to use boards that don't match very well. The boards that form the shelf were resawn from a single 38 mm thick board, so they are pretty uniform.
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10th December 2006, 12:07 PM #9GOLD MEMBER
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10th December 2006, 12:19 PM #10I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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10th December 2006, 12:31 PM #11
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10th December 2006, 05:10 PM #12Senior Member
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Huon pine
If you want to see some good Huon pine work,suggest a visit to the Powerhouse museum at Ultimo,there is a magnificent grand piano there,which I reckon is equal to anything in the world.
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10th December 2006, 05:14 PM #13
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