Anyone need a table !!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

This guy isn't one to sell himself short, is he?

I think a £4000 reserve is a little optimistic!

Incidently, what's wrong with dovetailed keys for breadboard ends so long as they're not glued?

Brad

The top boards will move across their width as their moisture content varies. Even if the dovetail keys are not glued the way they are arranged will try and stop this movement, hence the potential for damage.

Traditional breadboard ends are morticed to receive tenons on the ends of the table top boards. The mortices are made slightly wider than the tenons to allow the table top boards to expand and contract across their width.
A variety of methods can be used to secure the end but all should allow the top to expand and contract across it's width, otherwise it is likely to split.

Hope this makes sense.

Sorry Spadge, I misunderstood!

I thought you meant a dovetailed spline connecting the breadboard end to the table - it is only after reading your reply that I have noticed those ridiculous dovetailed keys.

You are of course, quite right.



And so am I!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Brad

 

[ike]

33 cube of timber, 25 stone, 3 in thick, £4K ? -pretentious more like. It's badly designed and made (sorry I mean 'rustic'), and looks tasteless.

YUK!

Ike

 

[wrightclan]

That's absolutely hideous. Rustic isn't exactly to my taste, but I've done a couple rustic mantel's for customers. This isn't just rustic, it's horribly designed, horribly proportioned, poorly executed and looks disgusting.

Brad