Initial round overs have been done with a 3/4” roundover and the glue-ups of the legs are done

So now it’s on to the final shaping of the legs and to building the top, which is milled and ready to go

Shaping will be largely done with my new Auriou rasp and Spokeshave that Santa delivered, gotta love that guy !!

Plan to curve the end slightly, as per Marc’s design, but am going to add an inlay around the edge of the table to spruce it up a little.

Inlay is from Matt at InlayBanding.com and is Spalted Maple, Maple & Ebony

Should look fantastic (if I don’t make a meal out of it)

For a detailed summary, see Marc’s site, the Wood Whisperer, Trestle Table series

Marc’s is Honduran Mahogany, I’m going with cherry as I wasn’t quite that confident given the $$’s concerned.

Anyway, pretty much following Marc’s process and here’s where we are as of today;

Templates made;

All the milling and initial blank making was done last weekend so here’s where we are after today’s bandsawing efforts, these 3.5” cherry blanks sure gave the Ridgid a workout but I’m pretty happy with the result so far.

Now I actually need to go back to Connecticut Wood Group as, with some knot’s, defects, bad edges etc.. (and being a complete noob), I don’t actually have enough 8/4 left for the upright support blanks.

So, whilst that’s acclimatising, I think we’ll build the top.

As it turned out I had 3 blanks, Yellowheart, Cocobolo and Maple that needed to be thinned down to 3/4 from 1” and didn’t really want to waste that much of that much exotic so…..

Unbelievable ! That Woodslicer blade is just unreal, I really just didn’t expect that much of a difference but it is just a world apart from the 1/4” OEM blade.

So now I have 3 great 1/8” pieces of exotic that I can use to add to my increasing fascination with making bandings and a whole new confidence in what can be done of the bandsaw

All in all, a very good day !

I must admit that this trip has been really different as I’ve found a whole new perspective on things like that chest and a couple of cooperage exhibitions at Jamison’s and Guinness.

Amazing workmanship given it was built 450 odd years ago.

tony