archersam
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My first WIP post, I think from my lurking you guys like details and phots so here goes.....
Good friends have moved to a new place and were going to BURN what I guess would have been a bespoke/custom made and installed mahogany open tread staircase (circa 70's). Not sure if it is true or not but some great person told them it was poisonous to burn so it was left outside the house when I happened to pop round for a cuppa tea to then find myself with a new project!!
Treads as they were collected:
Sorting out which are most useable
10 biscuits per side - I am always a bit paranoid and tend to over engineer things.
Realising I don't have enough long clamps to do all 6 boards so it is 4 first
After a night of dreaming about clamps and searching forums and web for ideas I drill out my clamp rivets and use M6 bolts to make them all longer
Plugs to fill the holes where the treads were screwed down
After A LOT of sanding (40 with the belt sander then 120 and 180 with random orbital).
For the record just after I had glued them all up I picked up a DW733s P/T and almost cut the table into boards again to use it, but I decided against it.
Learning the very hard way that you need to make sure that your ratchet clamps are not broken!!! It amazed me how quickly the router ripped into this before I realised what was going on.
As it currently sits in my workshop with 2 coats of waterbased Walnut stain then 2 coats of satin hard lacquer from Hannants http://www.hannants.com/
Final step is to assemble the metal legs and glass top(s). I will leave you in suspense as to how it might actually look as most people at this stage say "its far too low for a coffee table". Thanks for looking. Sam
Good friends have moved to a new place and were going to BURN what I guess would have been a bespoke/custom made and installed mahogany open tread staircase (circa 70's). Not sure if it is true or not but some great person told them it was poisonous to burn so it was left outside the house when I happened to pop round for a cuppa tea to then find myself with a new project!!
Treads as they were collected:
Sorting out which are most useable
10 biscuits per side - I am always a bit paranoid and tend to over engineer things.
Realising I don't have enough long clamps to do all 6 boards so it is 4 first
After a night of dreaming about clamps and searching forums and web for ideas I drill out my clamp rivets and use M6 bolts to make them all longer
Plugs to fill the holes where the treads were screwed down
After A LOT of sanding (40 with the belt sander then 120 and 180 with random orbital).
For the record just after I had glued them all up I picked up a DW733s P/T and almost cut the table into boards again to use it, but I decided against it.
Learning the very hard way that you need to make sure that your ratchet clamps are not broken!!! It amazed me how quickly the router ripped into this before I realised what was going on.
As it currently sits in my workshop with 2 coats of waterbased Walnut stain then 2 coats of satin hard lacquer from Hannants http://www.hannants.com/
Final step is to assemble the metal legs and glass top(s). I will leave you in suspense as to how it might actually look as most people at this stage say "its far too low for a coffee table". Thanks for looking. Sam
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