Cherry Table WIP

[woodbloke]

This rather pleasant board of air dried English Cherry (none of your 'murrican stuff :wink::

was roughly converted and left for a couple of months so that after a bit of skimming with the LV LA jack I had a much smaller pile of sticks:

There's going to be four inlaid panels with something burry and round the outside of the burr will be a line in ebony:

The four bits nearest the camera are the bits going to be inlaid, but first of all they had to be shot in:

after which all the m/t's had to be marked out...this shot just shows all the legs cramped together at the start:

This project is going to be quite complicated :wink: :roll: to put together as there will be eight legs, eight rails and five panels, plus sixteen 'birds mouth' tenons (with 6mm ply inserts) so there'll be lots of 'shave and rasp work. I've just finished marking out all the mortises so it's tenons after that - Rob

 

[Paul Chapman]

Look forward to seeing this one progress, Rob. Sounds like there might be a few challenges :wink:

Cheers :wink:

Paul

PS Nice plane.....

 

[Lord Nibbo]

Nice start Rob. Are you left handed?

 

[shim20]

cool, looking good, look forward to seeing progress

 

[woodbloke]

Nice start Rob. Are you left handed?

:-s :? - Rob

 

[Mr Ed]

Looks like a cracking piece of Cherry Rob. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it.

Cheers, Ed

 

[Escudo]

Good luck with this project Rob. I plan to keep an eye on your progress, quite refreshing that it is not a tool cabinet. :wink:

Cheers, Tony.

 

[joiner_sim]

It looks like you're off to a great start, can't wait to see what methods are used and the final product of all your hard work will look like!

 

[StarGazer]

Rob,

Please excuse the silly questions from a beginner, so often I see a rough plank being converted to a nice neat pile of rough sized parts but no idea of sizes? Can you tell us the size and thickness of the original piece of cherry and how much waste to give the complete stack of parts?

Thanks

IanL

 

[woodbloke]

Rob,

Please excuse the silly questions from a beginner, so often I see a rough plank being converted to a nice neat pile of rough sized parts but no idea of sizes? Can you tell us the size and thickness of the original piece of cherry and how much waste to give the complete stack of parts?

Thanks

IanL

As you can see from the first pic, the board's just under 2m high, about 500mm wide at the widest point and 50mm thick. Although it looks quite impressive, there was a lot of waste on it because the other side was full of quite deep surface checks and soft bits of sap , so I had to be pretty careful how it was converted. I did it initially by using a hand held c/s to cut it into rough lumps before it was planed on the p/t, so I guess there was probably 30-40% waste on it - Rob

 

[OPJ]

There's going to be four inlaid panels with something burry and round the outside of the burr will be a line in ebony:

Thanks, Rob. It's nice to know I'm not the only one who spends time putting on the face and edge marks and then decides to change his mind! :wink:

Nice lump of cherry, by the way. Good to see of the English stuff being used, there isn't always much around.

 

[StarGazer]

Thanks Rob, that helps me to put a context on buying wood.

 

[woodbloke]

Last week I posted some pics of this coffee table project which probably meant nothing to anyone 'cept me so I deleted them. However I've done a bit more and have got one of the end frame assemblies together as a dry-run:

The depression in the middle of the wide end panel will be filled with a nice bit of burr stuff and then an ebony line is going round the outside'

The next shot shows:

one of the frames together and there'll be an identical pair of frames fitting in the halving joints to form a cross shape. There'll be lots of shaping to do, you can just make out the cross hatching in biro on the inside of one of the end frames. In addition the legs will also be flared from the top down so that the panel and legs will eventually be flush. Horns will be removed so it'll sit flat on the floor - Rob

 

[shim20]

thats some really nice cherry you got there, looking good.

 

[Paul Chapman]

Ah, it's starting to make sense now Looking good, Rob.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[woodbloke]

Haven't shown you much of what's been going on with this table, but here's an update. After a very pleasant day at Yandles I came away with nice lump of burr elm which was duly sliced up an stuck into the recesses on the end frames. This pic shows a trial fit with small bits of 6mm ply for the loose tongues...the end frame is then shot in tight against the mitres:

so that by this morning I had four of them glued up:

I've been working on one of them all day and have got this far:

As you can see, the corners have been roughly cut (scribing gouge) and then rasped to shape, arrises are still sharp so there's still loads of shaping to do. There's going to be an ebony line round the elm burr...you can see the groove.

What makes it ever so slightly more complicated is that the side profile:

is slightly curved so the rails had to be taken down level with the burr elm...it's taken me all day to get this far on just this panel. English Cherry though is a right pita...it's the last time I'll use it (maybe this board was kilned :duno but there's parts of it that cut like coarse pine. The only thing it does do in plane well, apart from that I'd keep clear :x Onwards and upwards... - Rob

 

[Paul Chapman]

Those burr elm panels look lovely, Rob. Should look nice when you have the ebony lines fitted.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[OPJ]

Love the look of those panels, Rob. I've heard elm can have a mind of it's own at times - I hope those burr panels remain flat for you! :wink:

 

[woodbloke]

Love the look of those panels, Rob. I've heard elm can have a mind of it's own at times - I hope those burr panels remain flat for you! :wink:

The actual burr is 2mm thick and has been glued in the AirPress to the wide cherry rail which is itself 18mm thick...so the elm's going nowhere - Rob

 

[RogerM]

Don't you just love these threads that show a quality piece coming together. This looks like another heirloom in the making Rob. Many thanks for the detailed account and all the WIP pics. Greatly appreciated. I'm waiting for the next batch of pics with eager anticipation.