Thread: Need help and advice for this joint!!

Looks like a simple mitre joint, probably pinned or biscuits or supported with angle brackets underneath. If you make your slab into a table with this method you won't be able to sit at the end of the it. Also if you take off 800mm for each eand that leaves you with a table 2.6 long by 1.2 wide which may be a little too wide for a comfortable table.
Might be better to take a 100/150mm strip off one side and use it to make four legs and bracing. The legs could be placed about 600mm in from each end giving you full use of the ends. Then you will have a bigger more useful table. Hope you have a suitable baronial hall to put it in. One setting takes about 600mm so this will seat eighteen give or take a few.

Thank you but.. It's a damn nice piece i do not want to trim it off the side.. But your suggestion is so good thanks!

Originally Posted by Jovian

Pictures or drawing will be great I'm just a beginner in massive joint!

By looking at the bigger picture, you can just see the edge of the bracing "quad" underneath on the left side. I'd say it goes right across, but stepped in 50 mm or so from the outer edges.



Zoomed in view.



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A 1.2m wide table is what I refer to as a War and Peace table. It is a real battle the whole time you are making it, but you cant reach over and punch someone in the nose across it.
I assume this is a slab with natural edge on both sides and you would like to retain that. My suggestion would be to take the strips from the centre of the slab, thus reducing the width to 1m. I would even consider a non permanent joint through the centre so the table can be moved in two sections or used as two matching hall tables (sawn edge to the wall.) There are a lot of options for making an assembly to join the two units together.
The joint in your photos would be a reinforced mitre - an interesting concept, but does render the ends of the table unseatable. Maybe it would be an option to form seperate legs using the same concept. This of course would mean returning to a single large slab for the table top, destroying the idea of two matching hall tables.

Originally Posted by Jovian

I bought a 4.2L x 1.2W x 60mm marry slabs, it's too long but I found this picture so I'm thinking of cutting both end to be the leg. The critical issue is, the coffee table in this picture is small, easier to work with, slab that I got is a 4 men carry weight size. Any suggestion for the joint?? Pictures or drawing will be great I'm just a beginner in massive joint!
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Hi there, just curious how you are travelling with your Marri slab table? I am the owner of Arcadian Concepts and happened across the photo you used. I would love to see the end result of your creation and would really encourage you to persevere with the design without cutting out peices of slab etc to make it easier to handle.The more you leave the slab in it's natural form, the more of a jaw dropper it will be, and the more the challenge, the more you will appreciate the end result.
Firstly your slab should be dead flat (we mill ours on a lucas mill), secondly the mitre join can be tricky and requires a good circular saw, plenty of sash clamps, two part epoxy glue and bracing for inside of the mitre.
If you need help, please don't hesitate to call. My mobile number is on the website. www.arcadianconcepts.com.au