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The Fast Food of Dining Tables

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It suddenly hit me one day that I was not and probably will not be the great craftsman I wanted to be. So I took this thought to heart and built a dining table that would serve my wife and I. I went to the big box store, dug and found some quarter sawn pieces of oak to use as legs and aprons. Got a solid core slab door and went to work. The base consists of mortise and hunched tennons, with draw pins that doubles as dowels for the tapered legs to the adjacent aprons. The oak edge is attached with glue and exposed dowels, hand plane the bevels on the oak edges and stained the thing. The top is held in place by sliding dovetail locks that lets me easily remove the top to replace or to move. The whole thing took about 20 hours, spreaded into five days, at least five of those hours were used for finishing.

-- Thuan


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Russel

1105 posts in 345 days


posted 200 days ago

I don’t ever expect to great either, but I hope to be competent. The table looks good and demostrates craftmanship.

-- If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a darn fool about it.

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mot

4830 posts in 442 days


posted 200 days ago

I hear you Thuan. I’m a realist. I’m no Sam Maloof. Good thing I’m good at my day job. I think your table came out great though. If I remember correctly, you’re working on your hands and knees in a closet, so I’d say your skills are somewhat better than you think they are.

Cheers!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

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Todd A. Clippinger

2486 posts in 505 days


posted 200 days ago

Your craftsmanship is complemented by your ability to adapt to your situation. I admire you, but I do not envy your shop situation.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

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mrtrim

1482 posts in 286 days


posted 200 days ago

i am humbled by your ability to do so well with so little . your table looks great ! keep up the good work

-- if you aint the lead dog the scenery never changes

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MsDebbieP

11043 posts in 567 days


posted 200 days ago

I agree with everyone!!
and Nice table.

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

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dustynewt

320 posts in 268 days


posted 200 days ago

Form follows function. Functional it is and the form well executed. Success, Thuan.

-- http://dustynewt.webs.com/

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CoolDavion

69 posts in 230 days


posted 200 days ago

I think that it turned out preaty good.

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GaryK

8274 posts in 394 days


posted 200 days ago

Very nice!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

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rikkor

6700 posts in 280 days


posted 200 days ago

Considering what shop space you are working from it is a pretty impressive table.

-- Maplewood, MN

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TreeBones

1353 posts in 429 days


posted 200 days ago

Looks like some top notch work to me, you should be proud.

-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3

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cajunpen

5291 posts in 472 days


posted 200 days ago

Thuan don’t sell yourself short. You are accomplishing very nice work with very limited resources. I think that your work is excellent and functional.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

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RobS

1025 posts in 712 days


posted 199 days ago

Yes, impressive, don’t sell yourself short. Nice work. I suppose you built the bench too, right?

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

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tenontim

675 posts in 150 days


posted 146 days ago

Thuan the table looks great. Never underestimate what you can do with a solid core door. I’ve made a couple of real sturdy work benches with some that I found at the dump. Necessity is the mother of invention!

-- Tim -- http://tmuli.com

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