So like many of you I drove home from downtown Raleigh with a 'pile' of mahogany that Phil had offered to NCWW scavengers (I was not alone, there are a few other scavengers amongst us).
After some adjustments to sizes, shape and finish, some of those reclaimed materials have become a coffee table (although our new kitten thinks of this as his very own play structure).
Process
Here's a shot of my van with a pile of mahogany trim from Round 1 of Phil's 2018 Great Mahogany give-away. I failed to take a pic of my round 2 haul, but that time I landed with 6 of the doors, several of them narrow.
The top is 20-28" wide, and 58" long and approx 3/4" thick. I used resawn door rails (the upright pieces; I can never keep rails and stiles straight!) for the table top. The underside of the table shows the evidence of original door mortises etc. The underside is beveled.
The table base has both door pieces and reused baseboard trim - for the legs (door), and the stretchers and 'aprons' (trim).
Here's a shot of just the base - upside down in clamps - and then after spraying. I used loose tenon joinery, as I did on my previous table; I am getting better in my methods, but need to produce more consistent tenon stock. The most challenging mortises to cut were the angled ones into the end grain of the long stretcher and apron; it took some head scratching for me to get that one right (oohhh to have a Domino...). Once I had the mortises cut, the glueup was relatively straightforward - I did a dry fit to make sure I had the right clamps in the right places. The base is 40" long, 20" wide on the wide end, and 10" wide on the narrow end.
Finishing
I used a spit coat or wiped on shellac (0.5lb cut) and then sprayed Target Coatings 6000 lacquer on the base and the Target EM8000cv conversion varnish on the top. I continued to struggle with spraying the CV, but the hint I received last time about using a thicker coating meant I only had to use 3 coats to get an even layer. I like the performance of that Target EM8000cv in use (that is a correction - I previous incorrectly called it 8000cv), but do struggle somewhat in spraying it. The Target 6000 lacquer on the base sprayed easily (for a novice like me).
And finally - to produce a finished product less than 6 months after taking in raw (reclaimed) material is a record for me!
THANK YOU to Phil for the raw/reclaimed material; for me it is a personal record to produce a finished product less than 6 months after acquiring the material.
Question and comments welcomed.
After some adjustments to sizes, shape and finish, some of those reclaimed materials have become a coffee table (although our new kitten thinks of this as his very own play structure).
Process
Here's a shot of my van with a pile of mahogany trim from Round 1 of Phil's 2018 Great Mahogany give-away. I failed to take a pic of my round 2 haul, but that time I landed with 6 of the doors, several of them narrow.
The top is 20-28" wide, and 58" long and approx 3/4" thick. I used resawn door rails (the upright pieces; I can never keep rails and stiles straight!) for the table top. The underside of the table shows the evidence of original door mortises etc. The underside is beveled.
The table base has both door pieces and reused baseboard trim - for the legs (door), and the stretchers and 'aprons' (trim).
Here's a shot of just the base - upside down in clamps - and then after spraying. I used loose tenon joinery, as I did on my previous table; I am getting better in my methods, but need to produce more consistent tenon stock. The most challenging mortises to cut were the angled ones into the end grain of the long stretcher and apron; it took some head scratching for me to get that one right (oohhh to have a Domino...). Once I had the mortises cut, the glueup was relatively straightforward - I did a dry fit to make sure I had the right clamps in the right places. The base is 40" long, 20" wide on the wide end, and 10" wide on the narrow end.
Finishing
I used a spit coat or wiped on shellac (0.5lb cut) and then sprayed Target Coatings 6000 lacquer on the base and the Target EM8000cv conversion varnish on the top. I continued to struggle with spraying the CV, but the hint I received last time about using a thicker coating meant I only had to use 3 coats to get an even layer. I like the performance of that Target EM8000cv in use (that is a correction - I previous incorrectly called it 8000cv), but do struggle somewhat in spraying it. The Target 6000 lacquer on the base sprayed easily (for a novice like me).
And finally - to produce a finished product less than 6 months after taking in raw (reclaimed) material is a record for me!
THANK YOU to Phil for the raw/reclaimed material; for me it is a personal record to produce a finished product less than 6 months after acquiring the material.
Question and comments welcomed.
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