Archive for November, 2007

I decided three coats of oil varnish were enough and brought the table home last night. We* drove it over in two pieces, then attached the top to the base in the dining room. It fits into the room pretty well. ———————– *We.
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The last ten percent of the job takes fifty percent of the time. Various shots of the final stages. The base with feet and table supports glued up. All of the supports are attached with glue and screws. I clamped the feet to make sure they were square. The top trimmed to finish size, 70″x40″. Then came...
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Finished the feet and supports yesterday and dryfit all the parts. All that’s left to do is trim the tabletop to its final dimensions (and round over the edges) and glue-up the feet and supports. Then a few hours of final cleanup and light sanding to prepare for the finish. The feet and supports...
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Yesterday I completed the last of the milling for the dining room table. I started out the day with a big hunk of 10/4 mahogany and ended it with seven 24″ long 2″x2″ square clubs. They will become the tabletop supports and the feet. My design uses six of these. The extra one is...
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Two views of the Dining Room Table created with Google Sketchup. I used Sketchup to create plan views, which also included dimensions, too.
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These are the afters. I dug the hole. And backfilled it. The plumber cut out the old sewer pipe and installed the new. The after. The hole is about three feet deep. The tunnel off to the left was hard to backfill. The backfill. That wasn’t enough to refill the hole (an old fence post footing...
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Last week I put the tabletop together. Yesterday I removed the clamps and sanded out the mill marks and glue splotches. I went up to 220 grit with the orbital sander. I’ll make another pass or two on the way up to 320 grit. Gluing up. The mahogany planks are 74 inches long and 16...
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The new dining room table is under way. Last night I clamped up the top. Last week I roughed out all the stock, and got the base glued up. Here are a couple of snapshots of last week’s action. The stock, rough cut and ready for milling. That’s 5/4 mahogany in the back and two...
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