Thorsen Table Challenge #7: Going for the Top !! Also pegging joints info.

that sure is a beautiful top!! love the little ditties on the sides.

I’m looking forward to seeing your video

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Wow Dick, that is beautiful, long way from rustic, you really did a great job. I really like your placement of the buttons. I read an article on draw bored jointery, it’s kind of a lost art to make a very strong mortise. mike

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You got sneaky on us Dick…. Beautiful accent, nice doweling… could be a winner.

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Dick you’ve made another winner here. This is a wonderful piece of “tabletop” art. Video is playing right now…gotta go. Fantastic!

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Dick,

Your Thorsen table project is coming along very well. I like what you have done for the table top. Also, the video was great and the background music really fit.

Good luck on the rest of the project. I can’t wait to see more results.

-- Fred Childs, Pasadena, CA - - - Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

the video is great. (and you are so talented—computer stuff AND woodworking!)

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

you stole my cloud lifts! I was wondering where they went ;)

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Vincent Van Gogh -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

We had a Cloud burst the other evening. LOL

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Great Dick. Nice looking, but stealing Scott’s Cloud lifts probably is a disqualification. What do you think Dennis.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Great work Dick, like Mike says, a long way from Rustic. I liked the article on pegs; like to try it sometime.

-- John

Hi Dick;
—-glad to see that you are using drawpinning or drawboring there in the breadboard of those mortise and tenons and makes for a tight fit, while also allowing for wood movement. Drawboring also works great if the wood is not dry, (green) and if the joint is not as complete….perfect. Timber framers make use of this one also in the mortise and tenons on the frames, girts and braces….which makes for a very tight joint as the peg acts like a wedge for drawing the wood together. I guess one might even call this a ‘come-along’ effect. Out of curiosity, how much did you offset those holes?

Enjoyed your video and great table you have coming along here!

GODSPEED,
Frank

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Thank you All.
Frank: I haven’t quite gotten to the pegging yet, but I plan on a 1/32” offset.

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Dick: I bought some tapered steel (drive rods – I’m not sure what they are called) But they were in a set of chisles and other driving tools to remove bushings etc.

You lightly drive them in to get a little taper on the hole to get your wooden peg an easier start.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Karson: I think they’re called drift pins. I’ve used them in metalwork., but haven’t seen them for wood.
I looked up drift pins, & came up with this interesting PDF, on pinning box joints.

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One of the issues of Woodworking Magazine (Issue 4, Autumn 2005, if you want me to be exact) had an article in it about making your own drawboring pins. Though I never got around to making one, the article was certainly interesting and seemed to be highly informative.

If you’re interested in drawboring, there was a technique article in that same issue. I think it was used for building the classic Roubo Workbench.

Great issue. Come to think of it, they’re all great, really…

-- Ethan, http://www.merganserwoodworks.com, http://greystonegreen.blogspot.com/

Thanks Ethan,
I had been looking at the same article this morning. I had to do a search with your link, so try this.

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Actually, Dick, I was referring to the printed article in the Autumn 2005 issue, which is much more extensive and involved and actually shows you how to make the drawboring pin. It is quite different than the Q&A link you indicated.

I just linked to the main page because you’d need to either have the issue or buy the back issue or CD from the website.

-- Ethan, http://www.merganserwoodworks.com, http://greystonegreen.blogspot.com/

Ok Ethan.
This isn’t related, but, it’s about tenoning.

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The drawbore subject is well covered in Forgotten Hand Tools by Christopher Schwarz. He uses them to do pinned tennons and describes how to make one. This is a great video and highly recommended if you like hand tools.

Also, I see them for sale on ebay every once in a while.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

It might very well be the same thing, Wayne, as he’s the one who did the article in Woodworking Magazine.

-- Ethan, http://www.merganserwoodworks.com, http://greystonegreen.blogspot.com/

I’m sure it is. But good to see it in action in the video.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

I’m not sure if this will work for everybody, but here’s a Video from FWW.

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Dick: on the web site FWW that had the video you pointed to there was another article for pegged joints. here

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Thanks Karson:
I seen that yesterday, & I should have put this link also, but you did it for me. There’s no end to information on the FWW website. That article should help someone.

LOL: This Blog turned out to be one on Pegging joints.

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That’s a beautiful top, Dick! I really like the drawboard pegging!

-- Jesus is Lord!

Nice video, Dick, but I think I would have used my wooden mallet instead of a metal hammer to drive the pegs. Karson, I wasn’t able to view the article?

-- Jesus is Lord!

Os, do you have a membership to the FWW on-line site? If not, the link won’t work.

-- Ethan, http://www.merganserwoodworks.com, http://greystonegreen.blogspot.com/

Boy the competition is really heating up! Dick an outstanding job. You and I have the same idea on the pegging. I was too unsure of myself to work in a wedged tenon…I may have to readdress that now.

-- Greg - Charles Town, WV

Ethan, I do not have a membership, but the video worked, so I thought the link would too.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Greg3G,
I’ll be attempting the pegs soon, as you can see the holes are all bored, but first I’ve got to do the finish sanding to the top, because it would be difficult to sand after Assembly.

I’m quite assured that the pegging will be successful.

You know the old saying, ”Try it you might like it”.

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I’m impressed, Dick. And I see you hired yourself to do all the acting in this video.

Great Job.

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Thanks Obi,
Stand in line if you want my autograph. LOL

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Dick that is shaping up real nice. Good job

-- JohnShackleford,North Carolina