[Woodworkers] A table, make that BIG TABLE

[Ron Odum]

Very nice!!! Great job.

On Fri, Feb 18, 2022, 11:09 AM Dave Heitstuman via Woodworkers <
woodworkers at lists.sawdusters.org> wrote:

> I’m pretty sure I have shared at least one of the previous table builds
> but if not here goes the latest build.  First a bit of a preface.  My
> neighbors son is a machinist/mill wright by trade.  He is also pretty
> knowledgeable on construction, a freaking awesome metal worker, and taking
> the words of Michael Keaton’s character in the Movie Night Shift, “I’m an
> idea man”.  Josh is an idea man, he has vision and he can turn his vision
> into cool stuff.  His idea’s meld old or used wood with metal.  When he
> came to me about 8 years ago for help he told me, I know metal I don’t know
> wood.  So I have become the facilitator of the wood portion of his
> projects.  There has been some random stuff over the years along with 3
> tables, this will be table number 4 and is by far the biggest one.  All of
> them have been with steel I beams for legs and arched metal pieces tieing
> the legs together.  The legs have fake rivets to give it an old look.  The
> tops were made from old timbers, reclaimed timbers, and the last one from
> an oak crate that held a several hundred horse power motor.
>
> This one is being built from red fir timbers that came out of an old grain
> elevator from a small farming town south of Spokane.  They were resawn to
> roughly 3” thick, 9” wide and 10 feet long.  Josh prefers a bit of a rough
> look so not much planning or smoothing is done.  If we to have to plane
> them to get to a more universal thickness it is all taken off the bottom.
> This table is to be a farm table, with the only metal being the 2 legs and
> his signature metal band that goes around the table.  The crazy part was
> creating the beam that ties the legs together.  The finished size is 6 x 6
> x I think 9 feet long.  To get the arch we drew the arc on it, got his dad
> over to help and cut it with the bandsaw.  At first I was a bit skeptical
> about even doing it, and then once we started could we hold the line?  In
> the end it came out OK.  As you can see in the attached pictures it takes
> up a bit of shop space.  We will have to move the assembly table before we
> can continue on, the only issue with that is it pretty much shuts me down
> from doing anything else until we finish the table.
>
> The pictures are the beam, 2 views of 3D printed scale models of the table
> and the 5 table planks glued together.  The next step is to cut the ends
> off and then attach the bread board ends.  The finished table will be
> roughly 4’ x 12’ x 3” thick………
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> 2Dave
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