| Project by Jon3 | posted 516 days ago | 909 views | 1 time favorited | 24 comments | ![]() |
Well, you need to start on the big stuff sometime, and we had an actual need for this. It is going to be a desk for my g/f for now, later on, it can act as a small table. The center is some weird spalted curly maple I had, banded with cherry, with a cherry base. The legs are some 8/4 cherry, and there is a taper, but not very strong. I kind of like the way it looked with just the real light taper on them. Joints done with the Domino, also my first real project for that, and it worked great, except I didn’t put enough glue into them. Had to reglue a bit after they dried.
Some lessons learned were:
Need more clamps! There are some hairline gaps on the cherry banding.
Must wait an entire 24 hours or more before trying to sand down the finish a bit, or you can end up smudging it. (Thankfully I tried it on a non-visible area!)
Curly maple is a trick to plane/sand.
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24 comments so far
WayneC
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posted 516 days ago
It came out great. How did she like it?
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Jon3
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posted 516 days ago
She’s a huge fan of it!
jockmike2
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posted 516 days ago
Looks beautiful, my two favorite woods are walnut and maple, so your project sure caught my eye. Nice job. jockmike
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CharlieM1958
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posted 516 days ago
Very pretty. Great choice of woods.
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Napaman
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posted 516 days ago
very cool…thanks for the lessons…turned out great…dont forget to add some “tags” to this post so people looking for ideas will find—-”table, cherry, maple” etc…
-- Matt, Napa, CA...119 days to sanity...
rentman
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posted 515 days ago
you must have been a woodworker in another life time,great job for your first,also its just a good job first or 100th.keep it up.
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Bob Babcock
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posted 515 days ago
Nice look…the woods work well together.
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Jon3
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posted 515 days ago
first furniture, not first project. I’ve done lots of other stuff, just no true ‘furniture’ before!
And there are mistakes, you just can’t see them. Some of the seams aren’t perfect, etc.
Dorje
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posted 515 days ago
Nice work!
-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA
David
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posted 515 days ago
Jon -
Great looking table. I like the delicate leg taper. Congratulations on the Domino! Its a great tool and a bit of beast to get used to. I just use Tom's Domino and use the money I save to buy lumber and glue! I think it is more available these days now that he is distracted with his lathe . . . LOL
Absolutely beautiful table! You can never have enough clamps!
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dennis mitchell
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posted 515 days ago
I think my tombstone will read “He died because he didn’t have enough clamps!” Looks good. Does the inside Maple float in a frame?
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TreeBones
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posted 515 days ago
This is a great first project. Well done.
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Don
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posted 515 days ago
Jon exceptional first large piece. I like the way the two wood colors harmonize.
Now for my concern; how have you planned for wood movement? At first glance, I thought the center of the table must be veneer, or veneered plywood. But you don’t make mention of this, so I assume that the center is solid lumber.
My concern is that there is going to be some movement in the width of that center panel, and the mitered corners will be forced open.
Your comments?
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Jon3
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posted 515 days ago
It is joined with both glue and Dominoes.
I haven’t planned for movement at all. I thought I’d just see what happens, and make a new piece should this one fail spectacularly =)
WaywardHoosier
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posted 514 days ago
Very nice table. I appreciatre lessons learned. I always seem to have some errors. I too found that I needed more clamps.
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che
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posted 514 days ago
Beautiful
I don’t think there will be any spectacular failure. I’d guess that the mitered joints will open up with time. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to build this from solid wood and allow for wood movement while preserving the following design elements: Flat top (no raised panels) & Frame border. It seems that a flat floating panel would have to be built with a gap between the frame and panel to allow for expansion.
-- Che.
Jon3
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posted 514 days ago
Frame and Panel could have been done, but I haven’t built out my router table yet, which is nearly next on the list, once I finish up a bunch of open projects.
dennis mitchell
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posted 514 days ago
I’ve seen significant failure of this design when moved from high to low humidity climates. Keeping it in the area you should be fine.
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DAN
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posted 495 days ago
nice work !! very pretty woodworking
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mot
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posted 491 days ago
Really beautiful table. The finish is great. I’m glad you’re liking the Domino. I really like mine. That is when it’s not flying around cyberspace in someone else’s shop!
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MsDebbieP
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posted 489 days ago
yah, I think Tom’s toy is at David’s place way too much—I can never get my hands on it!
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Robb
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posted 474 days ago
Very nice looking table! I really like the mix of maple and cherry. You did a nice job on the finish as well.
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Obi
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Great job on your first furniture project.
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Jeff
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NIce piece of furniture for your first time keep on truckin.
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