Another Table.(Very very long with WIP pics)Now Finished.

[gwaithcoed]

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Had 6 of these desk legs given to me. 2x2 oak but full of mortice holes and grooves where the plywood back and sides had been fitted. I didn't think I could use them for anything but hate throwing wood away so it was moved around the workshop until I had an idea.

Cut them on the bandsaw about 10 mil thick along with some bits of mahogany.

And ended up with this

Put them through the thicknesser

Chopped out the rubbish on the chop saw.

Through the saw to get them all the same width.

Then squared the edges on the planer.

Made a jig out of some old chipboard and some other offcuts

Cut the pieces to length and tried a dry fit, sanding where required to get a good fit.

Glued them up in the jig remembering to put a piece of paper underneath to stop the wood sticking to the jig.

I then cut some teak to make the top surround, and also the legs and rails.

Plane a face side and face edge

Then thickness to size.

Cut the grooves for the plywood insert on the table saw.

And cut the mitres on the chop saw.

Then make up the frame for the top.

When the top had dried it was fitted into the frame and the gaps around the sides were filled with pieces of ash. Next job is to sand it flat with a ROS and round off the edges at the router bench.

All I have to do now is to make the legs and rails.

Alan


Here are pics. of the finished table

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The legs were cut from 1 1/8" teak to give a finished size of 1" square and 6 mil mortices were cut using a home made jig

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Here are the legs showing the top and bottom mortices.

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A taper was cut on the inside edges 4" from the bottom.

The tennons were cut by nibbling away the waste on the table saw.

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Here are the finished components. A bead detail was cut on the bottom edge of the top rails
The ends of all of the tennons had to be cut at 45 degrees as they met in the mortices.

The legs were first glued in pairs,cleaning the joints with acetone prior to glueing

The pairs were then glued together

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The top was then fixed on and given 3 coats of danish oil.

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And if you are making one you may as well make two.



Cheers Alan.

 

[Neomorph]

Now that's what I call recycling

To imagine that the wood would most probably been chipped/shredded and then thrown on someone's garden and would have lasted at most a year until it rotted.

Nice one!

 

[Waka]

Alan

Looks very nice, keep us posted with more WIP

 

[Newbie_Neil]

Hi Alan

Well done, an excellent piece of recycling.

Cheers
Neil

 

[Paul Chapman]

Very nice work, Alan and a great set of pictures.

Look forward to seeing the finished job.

Paul

 

[PowerTool]

Very nice project,and excellent pictures.

Like the overalls - bet you never get lost in the fog :wink:

Andrew

 

[DaveL]

Alan,

Good pictures and a good project, I must admit that if fuel was short some of that timber would have gone in my wood burner.

 

[gwaithcoed]

Andrew wrote

Like the overalls - bet you never get lost in the fog

They were freebies, my wife says I look like someone doing community service

Alan.

 

[Bean]

I like that Alan

Bean

 

[CYC]

Nice, very nice

 

[dedee]

Alan, nice piece and good photos too.

If you were to use a sander is there not a danger of the dust from the darker woods getting engrained into the lighter woods?

Andy

 

[gwaithcoed]

Hello dedee,

I used a similar method when making two chess tables a while back.One of these had a teak frame and the board was made up of squares of mahogany and ash. These were sanded flat after glueing without any problems and I'm hoping for the same result this time .

Fingers crossed. I'll post results when I have finished it.

Alan.

 

[gwaithcoed]

Table now finished,with more pics.

Alan

 

[trevtheturner]

That is a really super result, Alan. Well done, as ever.
=D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>

Cheers,

Trev.

 

[Chris Knight]

Alan,
Congratulations. A very nice result from a distinctly unpromising start! Takes some real creativity to see the possibilities.

 

[Paul Chapman]

Very nice finished result, Alan =D> =D>

Paul