[Woodworkers] A table, make that BIG TABLE

[John McCaskill]

Nice!

They told me I was gullible and I believed them.


On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 12:30 PM Steve Bigelow via Woodworkers <
woodworkers at lists.sawdusters.org> wrote:

> Isn't it great that you can print things in scale before building? I do
> that with my big projects.
>
> It's also nice being able to print jigs, fixtures, etc. for use around the
> shop.
>
> Good progress being made!
>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2022, 9:09 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………
>>
>>
>>
>> 2Dave
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