Joe was right. You don't need no steekin' plans. Just cut some wood
I'm making the tables out of some QS Sycamore. It's a great wood to work with. Cuts easily, light, and no splintering. The only tough part is that the highly figured sections are prone to tearout. Man I wish I had a drum sander for that. I glued up some boards for the legs, managed to get them 1 3/4" thick. I think I'll actually use 8/4 stock in the future though, 4/4 stock is cheaper to start with but you waste a lot of material in the process.
Here are all the legs and aprons, all ready, largely due to Wayne's (Canuck) help last Saturday. Things go much quicker when you work in tandem moving stock from jointer to planer to table saw.
The joinery will be done via dowels. My mortising plans got sidetracked due to a canceled tool order, so Wayne decided I was in a vulnerable enough state to expose me to the Dowelmax. That is a pretty amazing tool. Fast, accurate, flexible, and all you need is a drill. A lot less noisy than a router, and very safe. Despite the price, I think I'm sold on it.
This is the first time I'm using tapered legs, time to put Joe's World Famous Tapering Jig to the test. Leg all ready to go:
Cut complete!
I can't think of a better way of tapering legs. Unless you're like Krenov and can taper them freehand on the jointer
Here is a dryfit of the tables, one with tapered legs and one with straight legs. The taper is very subtle, going from 1 3/4" to 1 1/2", but it makes a big impact.
Glued up panels for the top:
Here is one temporarily placed on one of the tables. The panels are roughly 2'x2' right now, but I plan to trim them to 22" x 2"". Ish. I'll start large and keep trimming until I'm happy.
I need to make sure I figure out how to attach the top. It will be with screws, the question is whether I'll use shop-made blocks or z-clips. Either way, I need to remember to route a dado before the glueup! (<-- note to self)
Next up is rounding over all the pieces, sanding and assembling the frames.
I'm making the tables out of some QS Sycamore. It's a great wood to work with. Cuts easily, light, and no splintering. The only tough part is that the highly figured sections are prone to tearout. Man I wish I had a drum sander for that. I glued up some boards for the legs, managed to get them 1 3/4" thick. I think I'll actually use 8/4 stock in the future though, 4/4 stock is cheaper to start with but you waste a lot of material in the process.
Here are all the legs and aprons, all ready, largely due to Wayne's (Canuck) help last Saturday. Things go much quicker when you work in tandem moving stock from jointer to planer to table saw.
The joinery will be done via dowels. My mortising plans got sidetracked due to a canceled tool order, so Wayne decided I was in a vulnerable enough state to expose me to the Dowelmax. That is a pretty amazing tool. Fast, accurate, flexible, and all you need is a drill. A lot less noisy than a router, and very safe. Despite the price, I think I'm sold on it.
This is the first time I'm using tapered legs, time to put Joe's World Famous Tapering Jig to the test. Leg all ready to go:
Cut complete!
I can't think of a better way of tapering legs. Unless you're like Krenov and can taper them freehand on the jointer
Here is a dryfit of the tables, one with tapered legs and one with straight legs. The taper is very subtle, going from 1 3/4" to 1 1/2", but it makes a big impact.
Glued up panels for the top:
Here is one temporarily placed on one of the tables. The panels are roughly 2'x2' right now, but I plan to trim them to 22" x 2"". Ish. I'll start large and keep trimming until I'm happy.
I need to make sure I figure out how to attach the top. It will be with screws, the question is whether I'll use shop-made blocks or z-clips. Either way, I need to remember to route a dado before the glueup! (<-- note to self)
Next up is rounding over all the pieces, sanding and assembling the frames.
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