Nesting Tables

Great looking set, and thank “God” it was a minor injury.

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Amen. I kept telling people “See how much God likes me?, only a nick to teach me to pay attention”

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Good job Michael! Bet you the cheap stuff out lasts the pine tables by a few decades.

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Well she knows how much I get my oak for, and I just smiled and said “Honey? PINE is the cheap stuff.” And if you look very closely you’ll notice that I glued 3/4” oak together to get 1-1/2” legs

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Those are nice looking tables. I am sure she will treasure the set for many years.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Thanks and I just added more pictures to my web site

JUST CURIOUS! WHAT DOES EVERYONE THINK ABOUT USING THE SAPWOOD WITH THE WHITE STRIPES?
I was thinking maybe I shouldn’t and then I thought maybe I should to give it character

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the white stripe does add character…. but to play devils advocate… I suppose that board could have been the edge one. Might have found better matches that way. (Not that you didn’t have other things on your mind with your thumb and all) but otherwise I think they look great.
If it’s any consolation, for what the tables get used for, (in other words if it’s out, there’s something on it) no body would notice if you don’t point it out.
I’d say give it a while, and if it still bugs you, there was an article about dyeing the sapwood to match (I think in FW), so you could always so that someday.

After “sleeping on it” my grandfather ended up rehanging one of the windows in my house because he wasn’t happy with how he lined them up initially. (Oh the probs with an old house.)

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I like the tables, Obi, and I would hesitate to use the heartwood. I think I would have matched the boards differently, but that’s just personal preference.

Here’s a great homemade tapering jig shown on the Taunton Fine Woodworking site. (This is a subscription based site, so I’m not sure that this link will work for those that have not paid the annual subscription. By the way, it’s well worth the annual subscription cost.)

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

Well, I didnt notice it before i put the finish on it, the finish just seemed to bring out the white more.
And Don, thanks for the tip, but it wouldn’t let me view it til I paid for it. If you want you could always save the pdf file and e-mail it to me. I found a home made plan for a taper jig, and it works rather well, I’ll take pictures of it and post them. Maybe we could start a thread on home made jigs since we are supposed to be Craftsmen. ;)

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Good Idea Michael..Jigs are the back bone of woodworking. My first table and chair set took about 60 hours to build the jigs and 40 for the table and chairs. Havn’t got the money back on the jigs…yet!

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Michael, were those solid table tops you built? How did you assemble the top (biscuit, dowels, etc.)? And, how did you allow for the wood movement of the top? I am curious, as I want to build a set of tables like that as well.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

The table tops are solid oak. Just glued with Titebond II. They’re three seperate tables that fit under each other and they are not connected. I saw an article in Wood Smith magazine that had another style, and these that i made were copied from some pine tables my wife HAD. Had, because each time I replaced one I busted up the pine table it replaced and burned it.

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Those are nice looking tables.Good job

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