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Thread: Simple Marri/Jarrah coffe table
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24th February 2009, 01:43 PM #1
Simple Marri/Jarrah coffe table
Hi everyone,
I've just built this basic coffee table for my niece's wedding present. Top is from a solid Marri slab (WA redgum), and the flitch legs are jarrah - I didn't use the original flitches as they weren't suitable so shaped some from the jarrah slab. The top was originally about 85 mm thick, which I planed down with our trusty Makita electric hand plane. The legs were shaped with the plane, also.
The top is joined to the flitch legs with a large dowel, that is screwed at an angle into the top, and then pinned with tiny dowel into the legs - plus all glued. Finish is 7 coats of Tung oil flooring, first coat brushed on, the rest rubbed on.
About 3 days' work, thanks to it's simplicity!
Cheers,
Jill
P.S. somehow the pics ended up in wrong order, sorry!
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24th February 2009, 02:08 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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Pretty bloody good Jill
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24th February 2009, 04:06 PM #3
Very nice Jill.
Cheers.
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24th February 2009, 04:44 PM #4
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24th February 2009, 07:08 PM #5
I got 'grabbed' by your bench Jill!! You can't half tell it's Made by Jill
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24th February 2009, 07:30 PM #6
Great table Jill. How did you go with selling the house and moving? Is it still happening?
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24th February 2009, 08:06 PM #7
That looks really good Jill
Robbie
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24th February 2009, 09:06 PM #8
Beautiful work, Jill.
Your niece will love it for many years.
Tex
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26th February 2009, 06:31 AM #9Novice
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Very nice table and great choice of woods!
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27th February 2009, 10:33 PM #10
Very nice simplicity is good!
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4th March 2009, 11:20 PM #11
Thanks Rod and Vernon for your replies! It was fun to do a small project that could be done in such a short time, for a change!!
Hi Alex - thanks for the feedback - nice to be on again, too! Fun little project, too - a change from a list that has gone on for years! Just worked out I will have built 70 doors for our home once I finish these last four this week! Next house will have less!
Hi Wendy - lol - like your Wendy stamp, eh!! Glad we ladies can have some woodworking fun, too!
Hi Burnsy - thanks - still waiting on the sale, but have a keen buyer lined up. Looking forward to our planned trip across the Red centre with 4WD and bush camping - some time in the next couple of months, I'd say.
Thanks Robbie!
HI Tex and thanks - my niece loved the finished article! Phew!
Thanks Alex - I never used to like contrasting timbers, but joining WWF has changed that!
Hi Harry - funny how a simple, quick project is to a woodworker (even a novice one!) what an entree is to a hungry diner - now I'm chomping at the bit to build some more complex furniture pieces before we start our next home...and while I still have a workshop!
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