It begins....
At last I have been given the go ahead by the client to manufacture the oak table. This is the sketchup drawing I did about 9months ago
It was indicitive and not a final design. This was accepted along with the quote, but put on hold until further notice. Well I was called about 3 weeks ago and told to go ahead with the build, so I repriced, just to make sure that the timber was still within the budget, and ordered the oak. I collected it on Wednesday and quickly realised that there was no way that my humble shop tools were going to handle this stock! A quick call to my Dad, and all was sorted. I took the newly acquired American White Oak to his shop and began to make some saw dust!
He has a 10" planer thicknesser which made short shift of the rough timber. I ran the oak through this, taking about the same amount off of either face, until nice and flat. I then jointed one edge, and ran the other edge through his big Jet bandsaw.
(sorry for the truly awful photo)
Then jointed that edge also
Finally for now, I arranged the boards in a pleasing order and dry fitted them
At last I have been given the go ahead by the client to manufacture the oak table. This is the sketchup drawing I did about 9months ago
It was indicitive and not a final design. This was accepted along with the quote, but put on hold until further notice. Well I was called about 3 weeks ago and told to go ahead with the build, so I repriced, just to make sure that the timber was still within the budget, and ordered the oak. I collected it on Wednesday and quickly realised that there was no way that my humble shop tools were going to handle this stock! A quick call to my Dad, and all was sorted. I took the newly acquired American White Oak to his shop and began to make some saw dust!
He has a 10" planer thicknesser which made short shift of the rough timber. I ran the oak through this, taking about the same amount off of either face, until nice and flat. I then jointed one edge, and ran the other edge through his big Jet bandsaw.
(sorry for the truly awful photo)
Then jointed that edge also
Finally for now, I arranged the boards in a pleasing order and dry fitted them