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

[Blister]

First off its not mine , but WOW have a look :shock: :shock:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hand-Made-Huge-Sp ... dZViewItem

 

[Scrit]

Personally I think that much spalted beech can be overbearing when over used. The timber is nice, but I'm completely underwhelmed by the design. In particular I feel the legs are "unbalanced" looking. Not to my taste I'm afraid.

Scrit

 

[Shivers]

Not bad --but those cleats on the ends only needed to be about 40% of the width.


regards

 

[Anonymous]

Just a novice comment, but shouldn't we be a bit worried about the breadboard end being fixed with dovetail keys? I think that this might cause issues with movement, wouldn't it?

Rgds

Saint

 

[Waka]

Not really my cup of tea, design or wood type.

 

[Shivers]

Just a novice comment, but shouldn't we be a bit worried about the breadboard end being fixed with dovetail keys? I think that this might cause issues with movement, wouldn't it?

Rgds

Saint

Good spotter you are -yes they should have been fixed on with about 4 or 5 floating tenons held with pegs from underneath.

 

[woodbloke]

Doen't light my fire either I'm afraid...agree with Scrit on the leg shaping - Rob

 

[Roger]

Yuk !!

 

[Nick W]

Definately a piece that needs the right location to look good.

 

[Philly]

Wow! That is a big table, too.
Philly
awaiting page after page of "cost" arguments............. :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

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[spadge]

Just a novice comment, but shouldn't we be a bit worried about the breadboard end being fixed with dovetail keys? I think that this might cause issues with movement, wouldn't it?

Rgds

Saint

Absolutely right. There must be a good chance that over time either the top will split. the keys will break (unlikely) or the keys will become lose.

As for the table itself personally I think it looks hidieous.

 

[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

 

[spadge]

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.

 

[Scrums]

Four Grand ?????

Scrums rofl, hehehehehehe

 

[Anonymous]

I think £4000 is ok, don't know if ebay is the right market place though.

I've seen similar oak tables, seem to suit this style better.

 

[nickson71]

looks to busy to me

 

[Anonymous]

Normally I'm a big fan of chunky furniture with a refined sculptural quality, but this one is tired & lazy looking. The sculptural organisation is haphazard. Its rare to see pieces which have that chunky look yet which are well crafted and spontaneous in their character as well. With a table theres not much to play with, one large, one small horizontal and 2 vertical plane's with this type. There has to be good proportion's in the major planes and better attention to detail on the smaller aspect's eg- profiles of edges, subtle changes in the shape rather than just wany, sort out the balusters (they visually "look" like they are about to burst under the weight of the top) I would have relieved those balusters with some pierced shape eg the cliched heart :lol: so you could see through them, and made the curves less extreme, maybe a similar curve on those as on the edges of the top, and repeat that on the feet also? Or possibly a halibut shaped top with subtly chamfered edges some angled in some angled out, with squarer baluster's. A look at some old english oak refectory tables would have helped, the form's are all there.

 

[dedee]

It's not the size, shape or design of the table that does my head in but the over powering grain pattern on the top.

Andy

 

[mel]

with the price tag and the uglyness its most definitly made for the david and victoria beckhams
not my cup of tea either