Well the wait is over, here is the table to accompany my ash & stainless steel bench.
Once again I presented the client with four different designs, although we both preferred one of the alternative designs this one was deemed to be the most practical as it allowed for a person to sit at each end without adding the extension, the other options had solid ends.
Height is 760mm, width 800mm and the top 1500mm long with an additional extension leaf of 500mm (stored within the frame)to bring it upto 2000mm. Material is American ash with 12mm diameter 304 stainless steel rod and 8mm toughened glass.
The rails were cut from one piece of ex 38mm ash and then glued back together once the cut outs and holes for the stainless had been formed, that way the grain flows through the whole rail. These are all the bits that make up the two end rails
And a close up of the complete rail with minimal loss of grain pattern.
Once all the rails were glued up and sanded smooth the joints where they meet the legs at 45 degrees were cut with a combination of table saw and spindle moulder, the groove takes a 12mm ply loose tennon which goes into a corresponding mortice routed into the leg.
As the top was glass and anything under it would be on show I couldn’t use commercially available table runners so used four 500mm full extension draw slides laid flat and hidden within grooves in the upper frame. I also added an extra cage of balls to each runner to eliminate any flex/sag
The glass is fixed to the table with stainless steel Fix Point glass fittings.
Well that’s about it, any comments, good or bad welcome.
Jason
Once again I presented the client with four different designs, although we both preferred one of the alternative designs this one was deemed to be the most practical as it allowed for a person to sit at each end without adding the extension, the other options had solid ends.
Height is 760mm, width 800mm and the top 1500mm long with an additional extension leaf of 500mm (stored within the frame)to bring it upto 2000mm. Material is American ash with 12mm diameter 304 stainless steel rod and 8mm toughened glass.
The rails were cut from one piece of ex 38mm ash and then glued back together once the cut outs and holes for the stainless had been formed, that way the grain flows through the whole rail. These are all the bits that make up the two end rails
And a close up of the complete rail with minimal loss of grain pattern.
Once all the rails were glued up and sanded smooth the joints where they meet the legs at 45 degrees were cut with a combination of table saw and spindle moulder, the groove takes a 12mm ply loose tennon which goes into a corresponding mortice routed into the leg.
As the top was glass and anything under it would be on show I couldn’t use commercially available table runners so used four 500mm full extension draw slides laid flat and hidden within grooves in the upper frame. I also added an extra cage of balls to each runner to eliminate any flex/sag
The glass is fixed to the table with stainless steel Fix Point glass fittings.
Well that’s about it, any comments, good or bad welcome.
Jason
