Thread: George III "D" shaped pier table.

I'm not sure it'd hold up in a painters and dockers bar but it's very dainty and elegant, well done

I don't know it may do that wandoo top is 30mm and as heavy as s**t

Originally Posted by mark david

I don't know it may do that wandoo top is 30mm and as heavy as s**t

Well then that's amazing how you've made it look as light as a feather, so to speak. I reckon the French did th elegance thing as well as anyone in those days you mention but I don't want to start a world war over it. Anyway, they're beautiful propotions in your work, I would have loved to see the carcase, especially how those fine legs were joined

A very unusual looking table. The Sheoak looks stunning on the apron.

Yes the top looks a lot thinner and have moulded the underside of the top as there was no way I was going to attempt to put the wandoo through my thicknesser !

The way the legs looked to be joined are a bit of an illusion and they are infact fixed only from the back and the front part was bandsawn off and glued to the apron the piece of white stringing masks the join.

yes the sheoak is very attractive and they were just some offcuts of flooring I was given with some other timber.The lunette inlay to the top is sheoak too but doesn't show up too well in the photo.
It was a bit of an experiment with the drum sander to get them to under 2mm although the surface burns really quick and ruins the sanding belt.

I like it. Seems to remind me of a recent piece that I saw on auction. The timber was actually much lighter in colour.

Originally Posted by mark david

The frame is made in the way most curved furniture was made back then in a kind of overlapping brickwork fashion and this table has around 50 pices glued together to form the carcase.These were basically offcuts of decking I acquire and having almost 2000 of them need to find ways to use them up.

I find that table absolutely amazing.
But I'm not following how you used offcuts to make it.
It's my inability to understand that is the issue, not your explanation.

Can I ask you to try a sortof "Dummy's Guide" explanation please?
Would a photo of the underside perhaps help me to see what you did?

Cheers
Jim

Beautiful little table and as someone who has worked with Wandoo I know what you would have went through

I likes it very much.

Hi Jim, the picture shows the underside of the table and the way it was constructed.
It was made much in the same way a brick wall is made except they are curved and cut roughly to shape on the bandsaw (very rough).the sections need to be made not too long to avoid any problems with short grain on the ends.
I had purchased a large number of offcuts of decking (nearly 2000)which are about 250mm long and these were ideal to use for this and I used approx 40 to make this table frame.
With these I was given a few pieces of sheoak flooring up to 600mm long and 16mm thick.
I resawed these on a bandsaw down the middle and drum sanded to around 2mm and this provided the veneer for the apron.Jarrah was similarly cut to provide banding for the apron and crossbanding from the top.

Classy looking piece Sire!!

May your further adventures with Aus timber be as pleasing to the eye!

Originally Posted by mark david

Hi Jim, this picture shows the underside of the table and the way it was constructed.

I cannot thank you enough for showing that pic.
Now I can really appreciate how you did it.
I've never seen anything like that, but now that I can see how you did it, it all makes sense.

Quite often, while reading this forum, I'll see a pic of something and turn my laptop around to show my wife.
Your table was one such pic.
It looked so elegant. I just knew she'd like it.
But when I told her it was made primarily out of decking off cuts can you guess her reaction?

She said, "Sure, doesn't every body look at a pile of decking off cuts and think to themselves..... I'll make a table out of that"

I'm going to have to give it a go someday.
Thanks again.