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Monday, February 24, 2014

RE PURPOSING A GATE LEG TABLE

I just wanted to share a little project I finished up ...

I turned 1 antique mahogany gate leg dining table into 2 gate leg shabby chic console tables.

I added a few appliques to each table, and I added some paint layering so it looks

like they have been painted a dozen ties over their life span.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

WARMING UP WHITE shabby chic coffee table

The weather today is rainy and curling up in a furry blanket would be wonderful,

but as every other day there is much to do. We delivered a large dresser into town last

night and had the honour of touring a large 1912 apartment in the midst of renovations.

That is one perk I never considered when I started up cycling furniture.

I have seen the inside of some wonderful homes around Vancouver, but when you started

to venture into the heart of downtown you get to see some magical history in the buildings.

Imagine the carved details of this love seat frame built into the walls and trim of a home.

Back in the country my latest endeavor is a provincial coffee table

with another wonderful french graphic.

I dont do too many coffee tables but my mother had a hand in bringing this one to me

so I couldnt refuse. Could I?

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The graphic used on this project was found awhile back, I dont know the source.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

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Monday, February 10, 2014

Finished the Chestnut Table

Finished the table Thursday on the way out the door for the weekend ... It leaves for Connecticutt, Wednesday morning ...

7/1/09 update

Will and Jim sanding the second coat of stain .. The client decided to go with all stained chestnut, no paint on the base ... Its going to look sharp

Ready for the seal coat tomorrow
6/26/09
Were in the finishing process ... still work with the clients on the possible colors ( or not) on the base. the top color has been decided and thats set to go now ... Were debating a wash coat of paint, with more or less stain showing through .... click the pictures to enlarge them ....

Proposed paint samples for the legs and aprons

2nd coat of stain .. Lockwood aniline dye

The first coat of understain is sanded and ready to go ...
6/21/09
By the end of the day Friday, we had most of the construction and joinery completed .... Tomorrow we will cut the center legs and fit them up and then disassemble the whole thing for final sanding and glue up. Click the pictures to enlarge them ,,,,

Table top glue up

Handscraped and sanded ... Breadboard end stub tenon detail

Gluing up the two tenoned half rings ...

All together now .. 4:00 pm, Friday ... Trevor, doing his best Stayin Alive imitation before heading out for the weekend ...

Original post below

Close up of the original table base ...

Were making more and more pieces using recycled chestnut. Its a green material, being thats its timber recycled from old buildings, and, though I sometimes wonder about all the trucking that has to happen to get it to me from West Virginia, still, I feel good about it, people like it, I like using it, and it makes wonderful furniture. This table is more or less a copy of one we made in 2003 for my friends Susan Sargent and Tom Peters. Its a little wider than theirs, same length, and I think it will be all chestnut, no paint. Its an interesting table to build. Luckily, we have some handwritten notes from Ethan Verner, the last guy to carve legs like this in the shop. We dont do them often, but weve got it figured out now so it goes along pretty good when we do. Wills carving these and hes really got the hang of it now. More later as we progress.... Click the pictures to enlarge them ...

Laying out the spiral carving divisions using string and nails

First leg carved

Most of them done; top roughed out in the background ...

First page of notes from mahogany carved leg table 2004 ... I think Will used the saw on the first one, but then switched to carving directly with a freshly sharpened 1/2" veiner (V shaped chisel) (chizzle) ...

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Table Saw Finds A New Home

Along with the jointer, the table saw has now found a good home and I have no intentions of replacing it. As I continue to change my work habits, I found I can do everything I need to do with my 14" band saw and my array of hand saws. I have started building another saw bench using this method and I am really enjoying it. Along with the table saw, the buyer also purchased my workbench. It was a fine work bench patterned after the Essential Workbench plans in FWW a few years back. It was big, and very heavy. Since we decided to sell the house here in Tennessee and move back to the Greater Cincinnati area, I saw this as a great opportunity to build the Benchcrafted Shaker Bench and will do so as my first project once we are settled in up north. I have the plans, and the hardware is on order. I intend on keeping my DeWalt 3 head planer for shop use when needed, and some other associated power tools used for home improvements and for the kids to borrow :) Anything else I sell will be some excess hand planes and some wooden planes I dont want, dont use, and dont want to move. I will post those later.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

a custom pool table

ok .. were getting close now ... as i wrote back on july 28th, theres a lot going on in the shop. for the last week or so though, trevor and will and i have been pulling the final pieces of the pool table together. pool tables are always a challenge because, typically, we havent built one for a while. our last one was in 2008 ... holy cow, no wonder we couldnt remember what we were doing exactly, and they are all different ... were wrapping this one up, and, wonder of wonders, well be starting another one in a couple of weeks. hopefully that one will be a breeze. .. click the photos to enlarge them ...

like most things here, we took something and did something to it.

natural irion walnut and quilted big leaf maple

what we took was the pool table below, dropped the tapered legs, changed the inlays from baseball inspired to geometric and had at it. the proportions, moldings and palette are pretty much the same, but the result will be different ...

the one above we built in 2003, so no one working with me now was working with me then. but fortunately, that table is local and, coincidentally, the client requested that we level it up as it was exhibiting a slight roll to one corner. after studying the roll, (it took 3 or 4 racks), we determined that the one corner was in the dead center of a +/- 30 clear span and either the thick carpet there had crushed or the joist had sagged ever so slightly. a piece of 1/16th inch veneer and two playing cards under one leg and we were back to level. it was a bonus, as we got to check it all out and remember how to build it.

like anything, you start with a bunch of parts. i never counted them, but trust me, there were a bunch ... our trusty companion is still, after 23 years of pool table making, (15 tables total) an article by paul bowman that first appeared in fine woodworking in 1989 ... i give you the link here. pauls table was different than most of ours, but the information applies (still) and if you study it, i think its all in there somewhere.

we typically start with a leg mockup ...

and in this case, we made the mortises for the inlays and the inlays for the 16 leg pieces, but held off on gluing the inlays in until we were ready to do the finishing ...

our assembly system is a hybrid system of bolts and steel plates and captured nuts, (like for bed bolts), and i really need to document that for the future .. trevors got it dialed in now so as long as hes around, im good to go.

i have documented the rail process a series of steps below that define the playing area (44 x 88 in this case), and make the balls behave and the pockets the right size.

the rails are constructed in two pieces ... ive got a very detailed cad drawing with dimensions and angles and ill post it here at some point ... the steel plates you see in the poplar above are for the rail bolts that come up through the holes you see in the slate below and lock the cushions firmly in place so the balls bank properly.

after we add the profiled rails to the polar subrails, we cut them to length using standard dimensions for each size playing area.

first we install the inlays, spaced in all cases at 1/8th (long rails) or 1/4 (end rails), of the playing area. in this case 11" starting out from the center of the side pocket and the middle of the end rails.

then we add the rubber using yellow glue and masking tape with the goal of having the point of the cushion one and 13/32nds (1.40something) of an inch above the surface of the felt so that they are not too high ... (ball does not rebound with life and kind of thuds) .. or too low ... (ball rockets off the table when struck too hard). .. a vitally important detail ...

then you have to figure out how to drill the holes for the pockets .. we do em like this, except on a full size table where we have to raise the drill press up on a platform.

then you have to drill for the bolts that hold the pockets in place ...

then you get to put it all together and bolt it all to the slate and mark out the pocket angles ...

above, i give you the keys to the kingdom ... the order in which to do all this stuff. this is my 3rd and hopefully final iteration of this list.

after marking the angles using the standard measurements and angles from pauls article and a couple of jigs we have made, we cut them on our chopsaw, all on compound, fussy angles. the ends of the rubber than get different rubber cushion facings and then the felt is applied ... well cover that when we get to it ... soon

update 8/22

i still havent posted the felting of the rail details, but i hope to get to that tomorrow or maybe over the weeked. the table is finished now and it will be leaving for virginia next week on tuesday

we set it up for a final check yesterday, using a piece of blue felt left over from another project. i only wanted to stretch the real camel piece once, when the table is set up for real ... plays great and im happy with the new design.