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#1 ·
Getting a start

Well I finally got started on the project today.

I dug out some Black Ash boards, & ripped , & planed 4 legs to thickness. Then I dug out some Black Walnut for the table top & aprons, & set it aside until tomorrow.

 
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#2 ·
Another tease! Where's the photos? I don't think I've seen black ash before - at least not knowingly.
 
#3 ·
I'll take some tomorrow. When I went out to my shop today, I wasn't planning on doing anything, just look for boards.
Look at the clocks I made. The Granddaughters Curio Clock, & the Black Ash & Walnut Clock.
 
#5 ·
I stand corrected, nice wood combination. I loved the curio clock when you posted it, and I still do!
 
#6 ·
Black Ash grows on wetlands in northern MN. The wood isn't black, so I don't know why they call it that.
It's the last tree to get its leaves in the spring, & the first to lose them.
You can see how the 2 woods go together on this clock.
 
#12 ·
I layed off of my table for a few days, & came up with some fresh ideas. Now i'm going out to My Cave, & make some noise.
 
#16 ·
Take a Little Peek.

I took a couple of days off, but it helped me come up with some fresh ideas.

I went out to my shop this afternoon, & made a couple of Templates, one for the aprons, & one for the stretchers.

Now I'm all set to make parts on the router table


 
#37 ·
Mortising the legs

Today I cut the legs to length, & Cut the mortises for the aprons.

I was setup my mortising attachment to my drill press. My Grizzley crossfeed vise was bolted to the table. I thought, why not use this when cutting the mortises. So I tried it out, & worked great. Once I got it all sqaured up, I drilled out all the mortises in no time at all. I tried making a short video.

http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf

so I'll try embed it to this Blog. I hope I can make it work.

Here's a photo of the completed mortises.


 
#38 ·
They came out a lot cleaner than mine. I made a mortiser out of my router, it worked ok but it just was'nt as clean looking as my old mortising attachment. I got my table cut and planed down to 3/4'' from an inch. hated doing that. What wood are you using, looks like walnut? Looks good though, you said you got your aprons done? Or just the templates. I could'nt work today, just did too much the last two days. Had to lay low and rest my back and rearend. jockmike
 
#46 ·
The Dry Fit !

Today I cut all the tenons, & dry fit the parts.

"A lot more work to look forward to."


Now you can see the shape.






 
#70 ·
Another Wee Bit of a Peek !!

Today I removed a little excess weight with my router.

More to come in the future.





 
#88 ·
Joining the Table Top, & Shelves

My Walnut board was 6 3/4" wide, but it was dished a little, so I ripped it in half, & joined it in 4 sections for the top, I also glued some Ash to the edges.

The Top clamped up.

Now I have to go out, & start with the breadboard ends for the Tabletop.

This is one of the Shelves, using my new Irwin Clamps


 
#108 ·
Going for the Top !! Also pegging joints info.

The last couple of days, I've been working on the tabletop. I mortised out the breadboards, & cut the tenons.

I kind of fell for the cloud lift theme, so I incorporated into the top. You might want to call this a sideways cloud lift.


I decided to try something from the latest issue of Fine Woodworking, They call it draw bored pegging on the breadboards. This is something I've never tried before, so we'll see what happens.

Check out my latest Video, hope you don't get bored with it.

I use my cross feed vice, once it's lined up it works great.
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#142 ·
Working my way down !!

Today I cut & fitted the shelves. Dry assembled the whole table.

Now I've got a lot of sanding, & pegging to do. This should keep me busy for awhile.



 
#157 ·
An Ounce of Prevention !

I was going to draw bore peg the breadboard to the top today, but I had to do some fixing instead.
I made the tenons the same length as the plan showed, they should have been longer, so there wasn't enough material. I was afraid of the peg holes breaking out.

You should have about 3/8", & I only had 1/4".

To remedy this I epoxied some nails across the ends similar to the torsion bar on a guitar neck .

After I was all done I thought I could have glued in a wooden spline instead.

I guess working arond iron for many years, I couldn't get it out of my system. LOL

Maybe this could help someone else.

Here are some images of what I did.






 
#158 ·
Dick, those nails should add strength.

Are there two tenons at each end?

Also, I wonder if you are not setting up the same potential problem here that Mark did with his breadboard ends.

Draw-bore pegs are designed to create a very tight joint by driving a peg through offset holes. However, the purpose of a breadboard end is to hide the end grain whilst accommodating the lateral expansion/contraction of the top. Consequently, the attachment of a breadboard end to the top is such that it is firm fixed at a center point (usually glued and pegged) with floating fixes on their side of center (usually elongated slots of some kind with no glue). So my question is, do you think that draw-bore joinery will accommodate wood movement?
 
#165 ·
Making pegs my way !

Today I tried making pegs for the false shallow holes. I had alot of trouble doing it the way the plan instructed.

I would get chip out when carving the facets on the plugs. I'm using Walnut, maybe Ebony wouldn't do this because it's more dense.

So I setup my disk sander miter to 30 degrees, & sanded my 3/8" stock to a point. Then I cut to the hole depth, & tapped them in with hammer with a dab of glue. Here's a short video of how I used my disk sander to make the facets on the pegs.


Being that I had a fine grit on my disk, it blackened the ends of the peg, so it looks just like Ebony now.

Here's another short Video, faceting the pegs with sandpaper, on your bench. this works fine but a little slower than the disk sander.

http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf





 
#188 ·
A peek at the finished tabletop!

I completed my draw bored pegging of the breadboards yesterday, with success. Then I applied one coat of wipe on Poly .

I'm very pleased with the outcome.



 
#216 ·
Showing some more of my cards !

I decided not to hold my cards to close to my chest, as Scott mentioned.

I decided to show what I've been doing the last couple of days.

I couldn't resist doing some chiseling on this table. That's the reason I did a downward cloud lift on the aprons, in order to fit in a carving.

One down, three to go.

This is about 4 hours of chiseling. A little more touching up, & it'll ready for the finish.


 
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