Amazing Expanding Table

wowwow! amazing

-- RIP Sam Maloof.........

i have been trying to design a box top for years ,
that worked on the principle of a camera shutter .
this is amazing !
i wonder how long it took this guy ,
to work this out ?
thanks for sharing .

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

I think…. No I can pretty much guarantee I’d get a headache just trying to figure out how it works.

Wonder how much the hardware cost. Also, you’ve gotta precise cuts!!!

-- Rick

I’ve seen something like this years ago, it was made by someone in the Royal family in the UK. I don’t know if this is the same guy. I think the one I saw was more like the shape of Lazy Larrys spirals…. but I not a 100% positive.

-- I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine - Johnny Rotten

found a link to the blog on making this or a table similar to it. it is here

-- 20 year old new woodworker. advice and tools much appreciated.

that is crazy …..I wouldn’t even know where to begin..

-- Todd, Oak Ridge, TN, Hello my name is Todd and I'm a Toolholic, I bought my last tool 10 days, no 4 days, oh heck I bought a tool on the way here! †

makes it even cooler is that its powered by a festool drill motor to make it open and close

-- 20 year old new woodworker. advice and tools much appreciated.

Supper cool, could you post the instructual video on the mechanism.

-- I cut it three times and its still to short? www.work-in-wood.com

Awesome table!

-- SAEPE EXPERTUS, SEMPER FIDELIS, FRATRES AETERNI - "Often Tested, Always Faithful, Brothers Forever"

on the write up the guy says he wont reveal thow the mechanism works.

-- 20 year old new woodworker. advice and tools much appreciated.

Many wows! Like many have said, it’s amazingly complicated and makes my head hurt just trying to think of how this works.

-- Behind the Bark is a lot of Heartwood----Charles, Centennial, CO

Kool table..this is link for prototype: www.YouTube%20-%20MESA%20EXPANSIVEL%20_avi.htm.
It takes a long time to design the mechanism underneath perhaps.
I think LJ’s could figure out it works..