Outdoor "Coffee" Table #8: Closing In On It...

Sweet!

Very nice craftsmanship Dorje (not that it surprises me, of course). How do you plan to attach the top to the aprons?

-- Jojo, shopless in Kyoto · http://twitter.com/kagushokunin

Thanks Jojo – I’m going to use table top fasteners...

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Coming out great Dorje. Very crisp, clean. Your photography is great as well. Looks like magazine quality. Are you just using your shop lighting or adding light?

When my shop grows up it wants to be just like yours…:)

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

Thanks Bob – the lighting is just a bunch of incandescents in those aluminum saucer type utility lamps clipped on the rafters…

I think you had asked about my camera previously…I left info on that in part #6. Not sure if you ever saw that…

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Looking really good Dorje, and like Bob said crisp and clean, good going. If it had only been 12 days since I’d last been in the shop I’d be a happy man! It’s been forever, have a laundry room remodel that I have to finish first (it’s take forever) but once that’s out of the way I’ll be back :)

-- I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

Great looking table Dorje. Have you told us what the wood species is? I see in your tags of Brazilian Cherry. very nice.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Are you using the auto mode of the camera or playing with the settings? It really produces great shots. Especially given the nature of your lighting. They really look like staged magazine glamour shots.

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

Dorje,

Beautiful work. You are a real craftsman. It’s good that you’re badk at it again!

Question for you:
Do you use your biscuit joiner to make the grooves for the table top fasteners?

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

Looks great. I bet all those mortise and tenons took awhile to do.

-- http://theinquisitivewoodworker.com/

Great looking table Dorje. I’m like everyone else. Those are great looking pictures!

-- Greg Mitchell--Lowell, AR--gdamitchell@sbcglobal.net

Thanks for all the comments -

Damian – I’m with you on the house projects. I was supposed to side and paint the house this summer…done quite a bit of siding and trim work, but no painting! That’s weighing heavily…as I’ve been trying to eke out time to build the table and do other shop projects to mix up the workload.

Bob – Auto mode it is…and a steady hand! Also, I’ve gotten into the practice (started with my 35mm) of taking a ton of shots and expecting one or two per bunch to come out okay.

Tom – I was just gonna plough a groove on the table saw. The biscuit joiner slots is a good idea though.

Mike – Mortise and tenons cultivate patience for sure. I think I put at least 10-15 hours into that. Also, cutting the mortises in the Jatoba was really slow going, due the hardness of the wood.

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Seen the fasteners Dorje. I though you were going to use either that or the shopmade wooden version of them. Good choice. Thank you for sharing your project with us.

-- Jojo, shopless in Kyoto · http://twitter.com/kagushokunin

Hi Dorje;

That’s quite a nice job your doing there. Great workmanship. One of the beauties of this forum is it pushes us to push our own abilities.

Between that, and the readily available advice, how can we fail?

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

Yep. I have table envy. Great work Dorje! I knew when you started this it would be an excellent project. I seem to remember a good deal of research. I can’t wait to see the finished product.

-- Jeff, St. Paul, MN

Thanks Lee – feedback is really important as we develop our skills!

Jojo – I probably will go ahead and make wooden buttons (they won’t rust)...

Jeff – Thanks…With the limited time we get to do the work…I may have put too much time thinking and planning and not enough building! I’m actually feeling the need to do something unstructured…but who knows when that’ll happen!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Actually, the wooden buttons are probably a better idea, given the “dry” climate of your area… In any case, is a gorgeous lookking little table Dorje.

-- Jojo, shopless in Kyoto · http://twitter.com/kagushokunin

Wow, I missed coming to look this “closing-in on it” post over. Really sweet. Thanks for a lot of hard blog and wood work. The table is seriously top-flight design and execution.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

And how is your scar healing?

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

I hear you on the house projects, this table should distract the family from the painting that hasn’t been done yet.

I just finally put up the tyvek today on the two walls I’ve basically replaced. I’ve only had the clapboards for several weeks now… was supposed to be done and painted long ago, mother nature had other plans. If only it wasn’t too hot to go in the shop, I might have something like this to show…

Great table!

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Well – gonna try to get back into LJ after a bit of house painting and heading back to school! (Work in the public schools). Thought I could start here…roughly where I left off a few weeks ago!

Thanks Doug and Scott for your comments…and at this time I’m all healed up! I have not touched – literally not touched – this table since I finished the work up to this point, took the pics and added this entry.

I oughtta glue this sucker up!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA