[Woodworkers] A real project

[Steve Bigelow via Woodworkers]

Wow, Dave, that turned out really nice!

I must admit that I had my doubts when you first embarked on this project,
but the end results speak for themselves. Nice work!

Regards,
-Steve
http://woodworking.bigelowsite.com
http://pen-blanks.us

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Dave Heitstuman via Woodworkers <
woodworkers at lists.sawdusters.org> wrote:

> If you will recall over the course of the spring and summer I made mention
> of another table we were building.  I may have even tossed in some
> construction photos.  We finally finished it the end of August.  This time
> we had some issues with the Urethane that I think were possibly directly
> related to the stain we used.  If we do this again I think as soon as the
> wood is selected we will immediately start making samples and experimenting
> with the final finish.  In the end the owner was extremely pleased so that
> is all that matters.
>
> To bring you up to date the finished size was 47” by 118” or just under 4
> foot by 10 foot.  It is just a fuzz under 3” thick.  We also did 2 benches
> for one side, they are roughly 4 feet long and 2 feet wide.
>
> It was delivered the labor day weekend to “the cabin”.
>
> The pictures are self explanatory, the table is in its final home.
>
> More pictures of the build etc can be found here
> https://picasaweb.google.com/justdavesshop/9TheTableProjects
>
> I still haven’t captioned the photos, so this table starts just after the
> picture of the bench for the first table sitting in the kitchen.
>
>
>
> I spent almost one whole weekend putting the shop back together after
> getting that beast out of there.  Since then I have been busy with home
> projects, solving a bird problem and getting things ready for winter.  I’ve
> got a couple of little projects in the shop I am putzing with and it looks
> like the semi-big project of the year is adding a loft to the future SIL’s
> pole building.  This was a bit fun to engineer.  He did not want a post to
> hold up the one corner, so I looked into supporting it off of the trusses.
> My neighbor has a buddy that has built pole buildings for years so I talked
> to Jack and found out the right way to do it.  It is probably slightly
> overbuilt but it is rock solid and although I don’t know that we should
> have an elephant dance on it I suspect we could have a small barn dance J
>
>
>
>
> 2Dave
>
> *"professional putzer"*
>
> The shop:  http://picasaweb.google.com/justdavesshop
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