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This continues the story of the table first posted in 'A New Homemade Vac Bag ' a couple of months ago.
My daughter Kate had 'convinced' me that I would enjoy making her a new table for her kitchen/diner.
She needed an elliptical pedestal design in American Walnut. It would replace a rather larger oblong table that was getting a bit tired. ( you can see the situation on her website https://www.katelovejoy.com/colour-field).
We looked at the costs and realised the £500 budget needed for a solid timber (sorry, lumber as it's american) was prohibitive. So we agreed on MDF clad in thick veneer on the top, standard veneer underneath and laminated solid wood lipping on the edge. I suggested a fine holly stringing defining the boundary between the thick veneer and the lipping would give it a classy finesse. The pedestal to be a cast aluminium off-the-shelf item. The whole cost would come in at under £500 (Dad's time comes free of course).
Kate wanted to reduce the apparent thickness of the MDF so I devised a shallow chamfer on the underside. This had a major effect on the lipping design and is where the majority of effort would be required. So this is the design:-
The first time consuming operation after cutting and shaping the MDF was to apply veneer to the underside. Fortunately I had lots of AW scraps left over from a previous project so these were cut and applied in a radial pattern, giving my new vac bag its christening:-
The next operation was to cut a rebate on the underside to take the first of the laminae which were then glued on in 6 stages using this method of clamping:-
A lot of clamps required!:-
That's the underside assembled, now for he top - cutting the thick veneers on the bandsaw:-
After matching and trimming the 5 veneers, gluing them on in the bag and cleaning up the edge (note the AW repair patch on the MDF to the left where I had to fill a gouge made when the whole thing slipped on the spindle moulder), it is ready for the final lippings to go on:-
At this stage I thought the wider laminae would need steaming to get them round the tight radius. However they curled up across the width and were scrap. Fortunately I only lost two. A tentative trial clamping indicated that there really wasn't a problem. So press ahead with the next phase of laminae gluing using clamps and wedges:-
Here is the underside with the lipping chamfer machined on and the pedestal attachment plate fitted:-
And the top completed with the round-over machined and the holly stringing inserted. It is finished with Blanchon hard wax oil with a primer to make it fully moisture resistant:-
Fast forward to overall completion and ready for business:-
I hope you enjoyed this.
Brian
My daughter Kate had 'convinced' me that I would enjoy making her a new table for her kitchen/diner.
She needed an elliptical pedestal design in American Walnut. It would replace a rather larger oblong table that was getting a bit tired. ( you can see the situation on her website https://www.katelovejoy.com/colour-field).
We looked at the costs and realised the £500 budget needed for a solid timber (sorry, lumber as it's american) was prohibitive. So we agreed on MDF clad in thick veneer on the top, standard veneer underneath and laminated solid wood lipping on the edge. I suggested a fine holly stringing defining the boundary between the thick veneer and the lipping would give it a classy finesse. The pedestal to be a cast aluminium off-the-shelf item. The whole cost would come in at under £500 (Dad's time comes free of course).
Kate wanted to reduce the apparent thickness of the MDF so I devised a shallow chamfer on the underside. This had a major effect on the lipping design and is where the majority of effort would be required. So this is the design:-
The first time consuming operation after cutting and shaping the MDF was to apply veneer to the underside. Fortunately I had lots of AW scraps left over from a previous project so these were cut and applied in a radial pattern, giving my new vac bag its christening:-
The next operation was to cut a rebate on the underside to take the first of the laminae which were then glued on in 6 stages using this method of clamping:-
A lot of clamps required!:-
That's the underside assembled, now for he top - cutting the thick veneers on the bandsaw:-
After matching and trimming the 5 veneers, gluing them on in the bag and cleaning up the edge (note the AW repair patch on the MDF to the left where I had to fill a gouge made when the whole thing slipped on the spindle moulder), it is ready for the final lippings to go on:-
At this stage I thought the wider laminae would need steaming to get them round the tight radius. However they curled up across the width and were scrap. Fortunately I only lost two. A tentative trial clamping indicated that there really wasn't a problem. So press ahead with the next phase of laminae gluing using clamps and wedges:-
Here is the underside with the lipping chamfer machined on and the pedestal attachment plate fitted:-
And the top completed with the round-over machined and the holly stringing inserted. It is finished with Blanchon hard wax oil with a primer to make it fully moisture resistant:-
Fast forward to overall completion and ready for business:-
I hope you enjoyed this.
Brian
