Thread: Making a Reading Table - Part One

Coming along beautifully my friend!!

That is good quality Oak by the look of things. Where did you obtain that!

Originally Posted by artme

Coming along beautifully my friend!!

That is good quality Oak by the look of things. Where did you obtain that!

Thanks. The Oak came from a friend's stash. He was nearly in tears when he handed it over!

Originally Posted by Woodwould

Thanks. The Oak came from a friend's stash. He was nearly in tears when he handed it over!

Is the finished item perhaps going to given back to him in recompense

It is a pleasure to see the quality of your work WW. Something that most of us can only dream of ever achieving but at least it is inspiring in as much as it shows, "it can be done" so it makes people like me try that little bit harder each time we build something.
Thanks for sharing with us. Great to see.

Originally Posted by Peter36

Is the finished item perhaps going to given back to him in recompense

If he likes, but he'd need to visit a teller machine for a few consecutive days beforehand.

Originally Posted by munruben

It is a pleasure to see the quality of your work WW. Something that most of us can only dream of ever achieving but at least it is inspiring in as much as it shows, "it can be done" so it makes people like me try that little bit harder each time we build something.
Thanks for sharing with us. Great to see.

Steady on there! My hat band is starting to pinch!

All it proves is that piles of flash tools aren't required to make a bit of furniture.

Originally Posted by Woodwould

If he likes, but he'd need to visit a teller machine for a few consecutive days beforehand.

I though that the min amount from a teller machine was 20 dollars?

Originally Posted by Woodwould

Thanks. The Oak came from a friend's stash. He was nearly in tears when he handed it over!

You must have been quite stern!

Originally Posted by Blue-deviled

You must have been quite stern!

I have a firm grip.

I once had a great little smithy at the back of my restoration workshops where I used to forge all my own catches, clasps, hinges, locks and nails etc. I could whip up a replacement item in steel at the drop of a tri-corn hat. Alas no longer. I doubt if I could even swing a heavy hammer for more than a few blows now!

Hand wrought H-hinge and nails on a reproduction Elm bacon cupboard.

I decided I would like to attach a steel triangle to the bottom of the pillar and claw after all, but I was unsuccessful in finding a smith to forge a facsimile triangle at reasonable cost. I eventually spoke with a local welder-cum-metalworker last week who said he could make one and would drop it round to me. In fact he dropped off two "… in case you make a mess of one"! The thickest area is the centre at 3/32 in. diminishing along the length of the flattened D-shaped legs. The edges taper off to roughly 1/64 in.

One of the bare steel triangles.

I used a hammer and the anvil horn to form one of the triangles to the curvature of the upturned claw, stopping frequently to check for fit. When satisfied, I drilled and countersunk the remaining holes and tidied the whole with a file.

The triangle shaped to the under side of the pillar and claw.

Prior to attaching the triangle to the table, it is now undergoing an accelerated rusting process which will take a few days to achieve the desired depth of corrosion.

Teach us more, oh great one - shine a light on your "accelerated rusting process". (please)

The process begins with immersion in a dilute Muriatic acid solution and is followed up with a saturated salt solution.

Thank you!

A man of many talents Mr. Wood.

I guess in your time warp people did most everything for themselves.?