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This is my first attempt at a piece of furniture. This adjustable table was built for my son to place an alarm clock on. It has been constructed from rived white oak that my son and I harvested ourselves and the top is of cherry that I aquired from a friend. It was made from a set of plans. The only change is the shape of the table’s top. The plans called for a fifteen inch round top, but I decided to go with a fifteen by twelve and a half inch table top. This is the table that I used both hand cut tenons and mortises along with the beadLock system. BeadLock was used to attach the tabletop and to make the connection to the slide at the bottom of the notched arm. The notch for the latch was also hand cut. The finish is poly and shellac. All tenons have 5/16” dolls through them for extra strength. I have included a picture of the top underside as was spoken of before on LumberJocks. The top is attached with screws, no glue.
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Dusty
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posted 601 days ago
Oscorner,
What a intresting project. It looks like a lot of detail in the base. How do you like that beadlock system for attaching tops?
Dusty
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oscorner
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posted 601 days ago
Dusty, I found it to be very easy and strong. I would recommend it!
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David
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posted 601 days ago
I realy like the adjustment system – very interesting! Where di dyou get the plans or inspiration for this piece. Nice design and I like the cherry!
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oscorner
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posted 601 days ago
David, I’ll try to put an answer to your question, tonight. I did get the plans from a book and I will give the title to you then.
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jockmike2
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posted 601 days ago
Very pretty cherry and that adjustment rig is pretty neat just think of all the applications you could use that on.mike
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oscorner
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posted 600 days ago
Hello, David and fellow LumberJocks. The plans for this table and other neat plans can be found in: ”How to Make Colonial Furniture” by Gottshall. It was published by MacMillan. The original copy came out in, 1971 and was reprinted in, 1979.
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dennis mitchell
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posted 600 days ago
Interesting design
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Tim
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posted 468 days ago
That’s quite interesting. I definitely like the adjusting rig. Nice.
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oscorner
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posted 461 days ago
Thanks, Tim… the adjustment is what attracted me to making it.
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NormiteLou
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posted 456 days ago
I love your adjustable table Oscorner, it is mechanical.
God Bless!
Normite Lou
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oscorner
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posted 455 days ago
It automatically locks into place when raised, but you must hold the locking mechanism up to lower it.
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Bill
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posted 454 days ago
I am like David, I like that adjustment mechanism. Can you take some more close ups of it? I could have used something like that when I was building my Artist Painting table. Maybe I can use it for another one.
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oscorner
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posted 453 days ago
Sure Bill, I take some closeups and post them here A.S.A.P.
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oscorner
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posted 453 days ago
Here you go:
I hand chiseled the opening for the latch. If I were to make more of these a setup with the router would be the way to go.
A groove is cut into the two legs that guide the notched adjuster.
I cut this mortise with a chisel too. The chisel tended to follow the wood grain causing my mortise to be somewhat off square, but not so much that it didn’t work. A deticated mortiser would have made this operation more acurate.
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