| Project by dan mosheim | posted 539 days ago | 2267 views | 21 times favorited | 12 comments |  |
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the commission for this piece came to me from one of my interior designer clients … she sent me a photo of a table saying that the ‘size was wrong, the glass was too thin, and the support elements were too heavy for the room’ .... it looked pretty easy to me on first glance, until i made my first quarter size model. that was close and then i went on to the half size, but the angles off the saw were wrong and needed adjustment. and the points stuck out past the edges of the glass on top. i was getting pretty frustrated until one of my guys took the ball from me and ran with it while i went off to the office, figuring out the key joinery and assembly detail on his own … totally easy and totally rigid and easy to understand once you see it … i could put the key pictures up here, but it’s a good exercise to ponder the construction for a minute and see what you come up with … one picture i don’t have shows the jig we made to hold the legs on their 45 degree axis to cut the on the chop saw, which was the key to getting the compound angles perfect off the saw. that and a little math …. there are key hints in the 2nd and last pictures, but if you don’t get it, you can see the simple solution here ...
-- dan,vermont,http://dorsetcustomfurniture.blogspot.com/
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TopamaxSurvivor
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#1 posted 539 days ago
Nice work! Even impressed the shop dog ;-))
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#2 posted 539 days ago
COOL… Very interesting…
Thank you!
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Kelen
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#3 posted 538 days ago
Very impressive looking!
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#4 posted 538 days ago
2 thumbs up for the solution-finder and the end result!
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#5 posted 538 days ago
Biggest wooden “puzzle” I ever saw. Nice job!
Paul
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Moron
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#6 posted 538 days ago
Why are the most simple looking objects always so complicated
Nice work
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#7 posted 538 days ago
I like it. Nice going.
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tbone74
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#8 posted 538 days ago
I have been trying to figure out how to do this for years and I happened across an article in American Woodworker on Burr puzzles. The 3 piece burr is this exactly. Looks great!
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renners
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#9 posted 538 days ago
I like that a lot, thanks for showing us how to do it.
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dan mosheim
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#10 posted 538 days ago
thanks for your comments … it is definitely an aha! moment for some folks when they see it … dan
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thejaz
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#11 posted 536 days ago
A ‘gold star for Lorne…’ Indeed!!! Well done ;-)
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#12 posted 532 days ago
Someone was using thier head!
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