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Building an oak dining room table

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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

Furniture Table Wood Rectangle Wood stain


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

 

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#2 ·
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

Furniture Table Wood Rectangle Wood stain


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

Looks like it's going to be pretty heavy. Hope you have some help moving it. Good luck.
 

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