Ash TV table - FINISHED

[Chems]

I'm going for the style that mattty pioneered on the altar TV table, thats one of my favourite pieces I've seen on here.












I want it finished by next Wednesday, not including the weekend as I probably won't touch it over then. I do so wish I had a drum sander thou I left it this evening having done all the rebates and the 2 end panels in clamps, the nice thing about the panels been made from 2 pieces is it shouldn't need any cleaning up I'm hoping.

Target for tomorrow, completed frame, bottom shelf and uprights, ready then for top, door and drawer next week.

 

[devonwoody]

Chem, I am worried about that bit of ash coming out of the thicknesser .

OK I know, it is lens distortion.

Keep up the good work.

 

[WoodAddict]

Looks like another good WIP thread from you Chems. I'll be watching this with interest. Is it me or does the top look sort of "twisted" on the SketchUp pic. I'm sure it's just an illusion with all the othe lines around it throwing my eye out :?

Good start, busy week ahead!

 

[ByronBlack]

I really like the design, and ash should look great for this one.

One small thing though: the grain doesn't match at all well on the two panel stiles - the one on the right has nice thin straight quater grain, and the one on the left has that flat-sawn kind of grain - it really pulled my eye and looks quite obvious. Its probably too late for you to change it, but I would definitely recommend trying to match the grain on the next panel.

 

[Chems]

I see what your saying Bryon, it checked this time it is all plain sawn. I'll really try and be careful this time in my wood selection to get a good match. Those styles are all cut from the same 1.5 inch piece, its amazing how tight to loose the grain can go in the width of a 6 inch board with ash.

WA, I guess its like a parallax of the eye with all the measurement lines.

 

[ByronBlack]

I see what your saying Bryon, it checked this time it is all plain sawn. I'll really try and be careful this time in my wood selection to get a good match. Those styles are all cut from the same 1.5 inch piece, its amazing how tight to loose the grain can go in the width of a 6 inch board with ash.

WA, I guess its like a parallax of the eye with all the measurement lines.

This is one of the difficult things with hardwoods - justifying buying more in an attempt to get even grain. I have had a number of projects where the cost outweighed the need to match the grain, but whenever I look at those projects I always think to myself I should have waited and done something about it - I guess its one of those things that comes with experience - and paitence (something I am usually short of).

If there is enough thickness in your stock, you can actually create your own matched quater grain by looking at the end grain and drawing a rectangle/square on the grain so that it runs from corner to corner, but you may or maynot have enough thicnkess to do be able to do that.

 

[OPJ]

This is one of the difficult things with hardwoods - justifying buying more in an attempt to get even grain. I have had a number of projects where the cost outweighed the need to match the grain, but whenever I look at those projects I always think to myself I should have waited and done something about it - I guess its one of those things that comes with experience - and paitence (something I am usually short of).

That's often my excuse for buying too much wood as well! Although, sometimes, you also have to buy boards "as they come"... (Perhaps I should try working to them "as they come", one day... :wink

Looks good so far, Chems. I notice you didn't cut the painted ends off before thicknessing - hope they didn't knacker your new blades! :wink: I know you said the new machine was noisy but, I bet those three extractors running simultaneously only amplifies the disturbance!! :wink:

Oh, buy a bandsaw and get a belt sander!! :twisted:

 

[Chems]

Didn't do them any harm, I think in hardness terms wood ranks higher than paint! lol.

I was saying to someone today I could defiantly fit in a bandsaw . . . . .

I'd really love a drum sander thou.

Got the end panels done today but not sanded after glue, also got the main base glued up and the first upright, so I need another shelf above the drawer and I can assemble the frame. Time count so far is 8 hours.

 

[Chems]

 

[ByronBlack]

Looking good mate. How's the little p/t holding up?

 

[Mike.C]

Looking good James, looking very good.

While I remember how is your Axminster Fine Filter going? I haven't got around to getting one yet, but I would be interested to know if they have turned out to be as good as I think they are?

Keep up the good work.

Mike

 

[Chems]

The little P/T is going strong and holding up to everything thrown at it so far. Its so good in fact, a bigger P/T has been knocked down the 2 buy list and a drum sander has taken postion no1!

The fine filter cartridge is very good, it catches a lot of dust and you can't tell its on now by the smell in the air which you could with the bags on. It doesn't catch as much as the fine filter on my RSDE but I feel that another layer of filtration like a paper layer at the bottom of even a piece of cloth would bring it down to 1 micron. I asked here. As it is according to axy its 5 micron. There has been no loss in suction.

I do feel that if I had drum sander I'd be totally set now. Its the only bit of my work which is a real ache without the rigth tool. I can plane, scrape etc but its just not time efficent.

 

[Chems]

Still left to do, fit the door, make the drawer, T+G the back and do the skirts. Then the accents. So not much!



Got the door panel made, tried to book match it but didn't really work. So can just assemble that tomorrow.

 

[OPJ]

Looking good, James. Though, a drum sander would certainly have reduce those many hours in to a few minutes' work! :wink:

Is this one for yourself or someone else? I hope you've learned the value in not buying enough wood, first time around!

Will it be all ash for the drawer or are you thinking of finding something even lighter for the drawer sides? What about the base?

 

[ByronBlack]

Still left to do, fit the door, make the drawer, T+G the back and do the skirts. Then the accents. So not much!

Can I recommend a comedy german accent - that goes really well with ash.

 

[Chems]

I appear to have linked the same picture 3 times, that is now fixed.

This one is for a client.

I have learnt the lesson, I estimated about 2.5 cubes, 3.5 would have been closer.

 

[Chems]

Is this one for yourself or someone else? I hope you've learned the value in not buying enough wood, first time around!

Will it be all ash for the drawer or are you thinking of finding something even lighter for the drawer sides? What about the base?

I think just ash, it will be ash heavy. Although maybe I could give it a walnut base for some serious pimpage!

 

[Mattty]

Looks good Jim.

I paticularly like the panel shadow detail. That really looks crisp.

 

[Chems]

Thanks Matty, you are my inspiration

Doesn't look like I've done a lot. But I have.

First off MASSIVE thanks to Riley who gifted me a pair of 270mm blum blue motion runners - the brilliance of this forum is amazing!

I also got gift the sheet of glass by my local supplier as they let me down on my last order.

I used the shelf domino jig I saw, I didn't do it before I assembled as I was worried it wouldn't all line up. Nearly did me in as I could barely fit the domino into the gap, 1mm less and it wouldn't have gone in.

I got all the T+G ran through and ripped to size and also got the router set up so ready to just run through.

Also got the shelf made. I picked up the extra materials, but still might not have enough!



I tried to pick up some less white ash for the back panels, I wanted the contrast. The glass is rebated in, I wouldn't have done this if I hadn't changed my mind on a solid panel last night and the groove was done. The glass will be beaded in by the walnut the same as the wood panel was going to be.

Thanks for reading. Hoping to have the back on and made a start/finish on the drawer and will be close to finishing for tuesday the finish day.

 

[ByronBlack]

Thats coming along nicely, looking great. What finish are you going to use?