Thread: Deconstructing Natsuki Ishitani's Kigumi Table

Actually made some decent progress on the leg assembly, getting a lot more comfortable with Sketchup now and it's quirks. Have the tee bridle joints all mocked out and used the recommended sizes from the book 'Woodwork in Theory and Practice' for the height of the table. Actually a pretty good book, lots of good illustrations and explanations although I wish there were a few more illustrations and less explanations at times. Has some great info on timber movement, species etc as well.



Next up is the tapers on the feet. I'm going to save both of these components in their current state and work off copies though, then I can alternate between different taper angles on the fly and see what looks better. Will probably experiment with the width of the leg as well, now that I have this as a starting point I can really play around with things.

Note for anyone new to Sketchup - making a copy of a component will edit all other copies of that component. Remembered this when all my backups looked the same as my current working version. All good though, just have to remember to make copies unique and away we go.

Re-did the leg and foot with about a 10% reduction in thickness and changed the joinery to accommodate. Then I put an 8° taper on the each side of the foot. Pretty happy with the bottom of the leg assembly now, I'm going to move onto figuring out the taper on the top of the legs and then the dovetailed rail which holds the top. The rail is a close copy of the foot but the geometry will be slightly different for the bridle joint due to the taper. I also snagged a shot of the underside of the leg assembly in the video and think I got it pretty close, time will tell!






Feedback welcomed! Now that I look at it again I think the feet might need to be shortened closer to the leg but I think I've been looking at it too long.

Dan, the vertical leg looks like it tapers - not parallel. If it does not, then I would do so as that is a nice aesthetic. Of course, it might make this all harder to get square (tip - add the tapers after forming the joint).

Regards from Perth

Derek

Interesting table saw he runs with this on the side . Looks handy . I’d make sure no one held the wood that way in my workshop though
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Nice table to build . Are you going with Oak or something else ?

Rob

Originally Posted by derekcohen

Dan, the vertical leg looks like it tapers - not parallel. If it does not, then I would do so as that is a nice aesthetic. Of course, it might make this all harder to get square (tip - add the tapers after forming the joint).

Regards from Perth

Derek

Thanks Derek, do you mean like this or with a different taper on each side?

Originally Posted by auscab

Interesting table saw he runs with this on the side . Looks handy . I’d make sure no one held the wood that way in my workshop though
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Nice table to build . Are you going with Oak or something else ?

Rob

He uses that a fair bit when cutting tenons and bowties, I've often wondered if that was it's intended use. Can't recall ever seeing something like that driven off that shaft of a rip saw before. I know there are a ton of attachments for the combo machines though.

Probably going with Jarrah unless some other nice timber falls into my lap. I'd love to do it in Tasmanian Oak but Jarrah is pretty hard to pass up for the price here in WA. Which reminds me, I need to go to see the timber bloke!

Actually just remembered there is a shot of him cutting the tapers.

Not forgotten about this, parked the design stage while I work on another woodworking project. And that kicked off a whole OTHER project (more related to my day job) which I hope will help save a lot of time for woodworkers in the future. More details to come in a couple of days but I'm very excited to show it off [emoji846]