Trend Competition Entry - work in progress; LONG

[Neil]

Very, very nice work Alf, and a great WIP report too.

I'm now feeling very embarrased that I submitted my router table

Maybe there will be points off for spelling mistakes though :lol:

And here I am in the throws of fitting stretcher plates

NeilCFD

[clutching at straws here, and hoping Alf doesn't check my entry for spelling :roll: ]

 

[Chris Knight]

That's the drawback to a single stretcher - nowhere to hide the fixings

Alf,
You could actually if you wished, simply screw through the bottom of the stretcher? If this were too crude, then opposing, curved keyhole slots at each end of the top would allow the capture of a couple of screws in the legs by rotating the top onto them (clear as mud?). In similar vein, butterfly section dovetail keys could be perhaps be used.

However, I reckon your solution is much more practical and just as good at the end of the day.

 

[Alf]

<grabs dictionary and heads off to Noel's router table...>

Actually that's funny. It's not a spelling error but a typing one (it's the speed with which I type with two fingers that's the trouble...) E and W are right next door to each other.

<lots of ideas to fix the top in cunning ways>

Gosh, all those ways I could have screwed it up if only I had the time...

Cheers, Alf

 

[radicalwood]

Hi Alf

Great table, looks really nice.
With your hand skills do you really need a router, they should be left for us poor soles with no hand skills, we need all the help we can get. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Noel]

Cool table Alf, looking forward to final post (of the project that is...)

"grabs dictionary and heads off to Noel's router table..."
My router table? Interesting...

Nice driveby on the SCMS, latest, newest model too.

Noel

 

[Neil]

Actually that's funny. It's not a spelling error but a typing one

I thought it was a bit uncharacteristic for you. Nice typo, though - they don't often work out like that :lol:

Noely, I think this is the second time Alf's called me Noel - she's really entering into the Christmas spirit, isn't she? :wink: :deer

NeilCFD

 

[Noel]

That's OK Noel.

Best Regards

Neil

 

[Newbie_Neil]

Oi

That's OK Noel.

Best Regards

Neil

Is someone taking my name in vain?

Cheers
Alf

 

[Noel]

No, not the same as yours, it's the Gaelic version.

Noel

 

[Newbie_Neil]

Ah, but I'm a Celt as well.

Does that make it the same.

Neil. :roll:

 

[Alf]

Oh deary me.

Sorry, Neil. Put it down to all this unaccustomed exposure to sawdust...

Befuddled*, Alf

*More than usual, I mean.

 

[Adam]

inspired by Brendan Devitt-Spooner’s rosewood dining table in issue #22 of F&C (November 1998). Cheers, Alf

Blimey ALF, not exactly rushing are we now? :wink:

Adam*

*Who has a rather high planned projects to completed projects ratio

 

[Aragorn]

Adam - you've been moderately upgraded!

 

[Alf]

Blimey ALF, not exactly rushing are we now? :wink:

Am I not allowed inspiration from back issues?

Anyway as the saying goes "Slow and steady wins the race".

Cheers, Alf

Wondering if not being a mod means she has to change her forum name to alframpton...