Thread: Gateleg Games Table: Plans Included

If you buy dressed wood you wont need the jointer and thicknesser.
You might need a router for the chamfers.
Cheers

Originally Posted by Stone Monkey

If you buy dressed wood you wont need the jointer and thicknesser.
You might need a router for the chamfers.
Cheers

Hi,

Thanks for the reply mate. So buying dressed wood is as good as doing it yourself with a jointer & thicknesser?. I thought I would save some money by buying rough cut and doing it myself but saw the price of the equipment and haven't got the budget for it all. Is there anyone who can do it on the cheap or is it just best to buy it dressed?.

Dressed wood won't cost too much and if you don't have any equipment, it will be a huge cost to get everything together you need to saw down and finish wood from scratch.

If you have a way of cutting it accurately and cleanly to length you can buy longer lengths of dressed timber and cut down to the lengths you need.

If you're starting out, Dressed All Round pine is cheap and readily available in many dimensions and generally will take a stain very well. It will also be nice and light if you want to be able to move it around easily. A disadvantage is it's quite soft and so might dent easily.

But if you're starting out you could build one out of pine and then perhaps look at doing up a new one later with nicer wood - perhaps just on the table top and live with softer legs.

Originally Posted by Cgcc

Dressed wood won't cost too much and if you don't have any equipment, it will be a huge cost to get everything together you need to saw down and finish wood from scratch.

If you have a way of cutting it accurately and cleanly to length you can buy longer lengths of dressed timber and cut down to the lengths you need.

If you're starting out, Dressed All Round pine is cheap and readily available in many dimensions and generally will take a stain very well. It will also be nice and light if you want to be able to move it around easily. A disadvantage is it's quite soft and so might dent easily.

But if you're starting out you could build one out of pine and then perhaps look at doing up a new one later with nicer wood - perhaps just on the table top and live with softer legs.

Everything I have done in the past has been in either pine or hardwood. I'd like to do the table in something different to what I'm used to. I love anything that has nice grain to it. Two which spring to mind are American Cherry and Walnut, both are beautiful. Any suggestions most welcome.

Depending on where you are, it's usually pretty easy to get Western Cedar and Meranti in various dimensions, dressed all around.

If the wallet is out for something, you should be able to find a milling or timber supplier that dress to spec for $$$. In Brisbane I have found a place with bins of offcuts that are nice to browse and they'll usually have larger stock once you find a piece you like.