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...
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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...
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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...
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Here’s the first thing I made for the new house. The top is just a pre-finished maple butcher block I bought at the lumber yard. The base is cherry. I finished it with three coats of Tried and True Varnish Oil (boiled linseed oil and resin (tree sap)). In the past I’ve mixed my...
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