| Project by Antti | posted 10-16-2011 06:05 PM | 1178 views | 3 times favorited | 3 comments |  |
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I’ve had this table for about 10 years. It used to have a glass top, but it mysteriously exploded by itself…
I made this replacement from walnut, and finished with danish oil. When shaping the edge, I first rasped and sanded it to a hardline (to see if I could, free-hand…), but decided it would be too fragile, and rounded it a little in the end.
As soon as I put it to our living room today, our guests’ 3-year old twins started hammering it with some toys. Surprisingly it survived without major damage…
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Tim Dahn
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#1 posted 10-18-2011 01:10 AM
Nice, too funny about the twins (you may not think so), they were just trying to make the top look the same age as the frame :)
What kind of joinery on the frame?
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#2 posted 10-18-2011 01:35 PM
A very pretty top and yes, the round over was a good decision, more for looks than fragility. A big chunk of walnut is always a beautiful thing.
Wondering about the exploding glass top? You’ve already mentioned the twins technique. Bet they were disappointed about the new one not responding in the same way.
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Antti
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#3 posted 10-18-2011 04:54 PM
Joinery on the frame is of “industrial kind”, i.e. in each leg there is a plywood in the middle, and solid wood on both sides of the plywood. This “sandwich” has just been cut to the boomerang-profile, and then rounded to the final form. The lower “table” is attached with hardware to these legs.
Re vipond’s question about the self-exploding glass: I have my own doubts as well, and my prime suspect is our 5-year old. However, he has been able to produce an eyewitness, who swears he was at least 5 meters from the crime scene at the time of the incident. As the eyewitness is his mother, I’m not convinced but until I manage to break the alibi, lets call the explosion “self-induced”...
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