My wife decided that we needed a new couch after my daughter got sick on the old one. That new couch is too tall for the original end tables I made a few years ago. So my current project is a set of new end tables. I have some QS Sycamore from Jeff, just enough for the tops, and a bunch of Black Walnut. So that is what they will made of.
Got started on Saturday milling the rough stock.
QS Sycamore rought cut ready for milling -
All 4 squared and ready to go -
Gluing up one of the tops using the Bowclamps to keep everything nice and flat -
Rough cut Walnut ready for milling -
Walnut 4 squared -
Walnut leg stock glued up -
Lay out for the tenons to be cut on the top -
Making the breadboard end's mortises on the mortise machine (1½" deep with ease :-D ) -
Cutting the bulk of the tenons with the router -
My most used dust collector......my bench:eusa_doh:
Removing the rest of the tenon material by handsaw -
Trimming the tenons to fit with my poor man's shoulder plane....a #78 (missing all the important parts) -
Breadboard ends dry fit -
Elongating the peg holes with a rasp after drilling through the BB and tenon with a Forstner bit to allow for movement -
Table tops all glued up, one sanded flush -
The rest of the table stock ready for M&T and assembly-
OK WAKE UP, the thread is almost over :lol: :lol:
I didn't get as far as I hoped this weekend, doing the breadboard ends like it did took a fair bit of time, and the shop elves are on strike. Hopefully I'll be able to get the rest of the jointery cut in the evenings this week and be ready for finishing by next weekend.
Thanks for looking and enduring my first attempt at linked thumbnails :icon_thum
Dave
Got started on Saturday milling the rough stock.
QS Sycamore rought cut ready for milling -
All 4 squared and ready to go -
Gluing up one of the tops using the Bowclamps to keep everything nice and flat -
Rough cut Walnut ready for milling -
Walnut 4 squared -
Walnut leg stock glued up -
Lay out for the tenons to be cut on the top -
Making the breadboard end's mortises on the mortise machine (1½" deep with ease :-D ) -
Cutting the bulk of the tenons with the router -
My most used dust collector......my bench:eusa_doh:
Removing the rest of the tenon material by handsaw -
Trimming the tenons to fit with my poor man's shoulder plane....a #78 (missing all the important parts) -
Breadboard ends dry fit -
Elongating the peg holes with a rasp after drilling through the BB and tenon with a Forstner bit to allow for movement -
Table tops all glued up, one sanded flush -
The rest of the table stock ready for M&T and assembly-
OK WAKE UP, the thread is almost over :lol: :lol:
I didn't get as far as I hoped this weekend, doing the breadboard ends like it did took a fair bit of time, and the shop elves are on strike. Hopefully I'll be able to get the rest of the jointery cut in the evenings this week and be ready for finishing by next weekend.
Thanks for looking and enduring my first attempt at linked thumbnails :icon_thum
Dave
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