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15th June 2023, 10:39 AM #1
Not quite a toy but ready for toys to play upon!
Not quite a toy but ready for toys to play upon!
The young builder & his wife across the road had a little boy 3 months ago so the house has to be rearranged ready for the little blokes pulling up and playing on and with everything. I've already given them a couple of smaller toys ready for him to enjoy playing with.
They had an old coffee table in their lounge room that wouldn't have been safe for the little blokes exploring.
Josh had recently done a reno on an old house and saved all the the old Aussie hardwood framing, then asked "do you think you could make us a coffee table".
I needed something to keep busy as our daughter was in hospital with pneumonia just 8 days after the arrival of our sixth grandchild, a boy, Marcus.
Her hospitalization was 4 weeks including major surgery to clean the lung, it's been a difficult couple of months for all especially her who is now on a long recovery.
The table was a welcome distraction and steep learning curve as Josh then said he'd like it as an "end grain" table...WOW!
I de-nailed the old Aussie hardwood, put it through the thicknesser, then glued the boards to together.
The next task was slicing the lot into 40mm strips on my 10" Bosch Contractors Tablesaw [it didn't like that process] before again another glue up.
The glued end grain pieces weren't quite wide enough so I added an old fence rail to the sides for extra width.
The whole board then needed to be surfaced and made flat so onto eBay for some "linear rails" to make up a router sled.
Mean while the cracks, splits, holes and defects were filled with Ice Epoxy Resin plus the smaller holes with Starbond CA.
First attempt, the old Makita D Handle router [from my passed father-in-law] collet failed but "spares not available, bother!
I purchased a new secondhand Bosch Professional 1300W [Made in USA] router and along with the Carbitool surfacing bit got the table flat [just 3.5hrs].
[Thank you Ian for your advice]
The next process was to add a skirt/border around the whole table which was glued, screwed and plugged in place before hours & hours of sanding.
I was fortunate enough to score the purchase of a beaut secondhand Bosch Professional Turbo Sander from a forum member to assist with this task.
[Thank you Peter]
AND FINALLY the table is ready for 4 coats of my homemade wipe-on-ploy along with sanding between coats plus a top coat of Satin Poly to finish.
What an effort for a toymaker as it took up all of my shed and more for nearly 2 months but a top learning experience.
Cheers crowie
PS - Old Aussie Hardwood is beautiful but some damn hard & heavy!
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15th June 2023, 10:54 AM #2
Forgot to acknowledge the shed supervisor and advisor....
Papa Smurf and Handy Smurf...
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15th June 2023, 01:11 PM #3
looks like you had to get another router in the process, I do like your router sled
The person who never made a mistake never made anything
Cheers
Ray
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15th June 2023, 01:52 PM #4
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15th June 2023, 03:44 PM #5Senior Member
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Great work you have been busy next stop high class furniture. Well done.
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16th June 2023, 11:06 AM #6GOLD MEMBER
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You are a good man Crowie . A top job.
Hope your daughter gets well quickly.
Regards
Keith and Cathie
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16th June 2023, 02:11 PM #7Novice
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top job Peter
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16th June 2023, 02:23 PM #8
That's a really good result; well done!
I was actually thinking about this the other day; a similar requirement has come up at my guild and I think it's high time we had something similar. Is there anything in the design that you would have done differently?Nothing succeeds like a budgie without a beak.
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16th June 2023, 02:29 PM #9
G’day Ian,
Thank you for your assistance.
The only thing worth be to make the sled table a little wider.
Apart from that the router sled worked well, do as we discussed, small cuts slowly.
If you’d like more photos of the sled please don’t hesitate to ask.
Cheers Peter
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