Dining Room Table Wrapping Up

November 21, 2007
By LHP

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 ten hours of cleanup and final sanding before arriving at …

One last dryfit to position the base in the center of the tabletop, and then mark it for attachment later. The whole thing ended up 3/32″ out of square.

The top after its first coat of varnish oil (Tried and True!).

The base after its first coat of oil varnish.
So close. So very very close.

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