Oak Table for kitchen

[rileytoolworks]

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[Slim]

Very nice Riley. How are you going to finish it?

 

[rileytoolworks]

This is actually an old job. It was finished with worktop oil.

 

[Harbo]

Nice and chunky - I see you alternated the top panels?

What sort of oak is it - does not look like English from the photos?

Rod

 

[Shultzy]

Congratulation on a very nice piece. Are the drawers the "push to open" type? Please can you give the dimensions as its difficult to grasp the scale.

 

[woodbloke]

Nice chunky piece, as this is a table done at work I assume that various bits of the assembly (end rail/legs, top and slatted underside) were all stuffed through a big speed sander...it's how I would have done it :wink: - Rob

 

[Imperial]

Very nice and lovely even gap all the way round the drawers. I assume the top is an off the shelf item? It looks like a "multiple finger" joint is showing through on the front?

 

[OPJ]

Nice design and good work.

The top should prove to be very stable in the kitchen enviroment.

 

[wizer]

V.Nice. Can I ask how the bottom slats are joined? M&T?

 

[Corset]

Nice work that. I am always impressed by how neat every body else seems to get their joints. My wife would like that sort of design. I had best keep her away.
Owen

 

[ddashk]

i like that. looks properly solid. i like the rack underneath.

 

[rileytoolworks]

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[the_g_ster]

Great piece, chunky but works, looks expensive too, I like.

 

[BradNaylor]

Nice looking piece Riley - but...


... £25k kitchens and they make a table with biscuit joints? I'm no stranger to cutting the odd corner myself when appropriate but even I would draw the line at that!

In a working kitchen environment that table is likely to start wobbling in no time. In my view it is not fit for purpose.

Proper mortice and tenon joints would take maybe an hour to make on a spindle moulder and with a router. I would suggest that when you make one for her indoors that's what you do!

Cheers
Dan

 

[Karl]

Proper mortice and tenon joints

Or Domino's at the least.

Cheers

Karl

 

[woodbloke]

Nice looking piece Riley - but...


... £25k kitchens and they make a table with biscuit joints? I'm no stranger to cutting the odd corner myself when appropriate but even I would draw the line at that!

In a working kitchen environment that table is likely to start wobbling in no time. In my view it is not fit for purpose.

Proper mortice and tenon joints would take maybe an hour to make on a spindle moulder and with a router. I would suggest that when you make one for her indoors that's what you do!

Cheers
Dan

Dan - I used to work for this outfit in Somerset and they were the main contractor to make Johnny Grey kitchens. The last one I worked on cost £60+ :shock: and when I suggested that drawers might have hand cut dovetails I got one of those Capt Mainwairing looks....'stupid boy' so it was biscuits for everything, where they could get away with it - Rob

 

[BradNaylor]

Proper mortice and tenon joints

Or Domino's at the least.

Cheers

Karl

Even pocket screws would be an improvement!

Cheers
Dan

 

[rileytoolworks]

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[BradNaylor]

Dan - when I suggested that drawers might have hand cut dovetails I got one of those Capt Mainwairing looks....'stupid boy' so it was biscuits for everything, where they could get away with it - Rob

You'd get the same look if you made a daft suggestion like that round here!

It is nigh on impossible to sell a nice piece of furniture or kitchen these days that doesn't incorporate soft-close concealed drawer runners. I know you don't like them Rob, but every woman in the world does - and they are the ones who make the decisions!

Dovetail joints on drawer boxes using runners like this are unnecessary. A biscuit or dowel joint is perfectly adequate and is most unlikely ever to fail. A dovetail may look nice to a woodworking purist and ten years ago I would have used them but you know what - no-one cares any more!

Funnily enough though, tomorrow I have to make dovetail joints for a Belfast sink unit which is to have traditional drawers on wooden rails. This the first such job I've had for years.

Time to dust off the Leigh jig!

Cheers
Dan

 

[woodyone]

very nice, i like the bottom shelf very much it seems to fit the rest of the design well.

Woody.