Tall Table

Great Design!

From my perspective there is nothing to critique. Nice job.

-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability

Beee-u-teee-ful !!

-- Roger from KY. Work/Play/Travel Safe. Kentuk55@bellsouth.net

Fantastic.

Your wife is so practical. Where’s it for. In the middle of the room for everyone to see.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

COOL…

Nice job!

COOL Design…

Thank you.

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Innovative design ! I think the contrasting woods work well together too. One concern I would have is the strength of the leg attachment, especially since the side grain of the leg is against mixed grain on the top. Did you do any kind of reinforcement there ?

-- Dwight - "Free legal advice available - contact Dewey, Cheetam & Howe""

One concern I would have is the strength of the leg attachment, especially since the side grain of the leg is against mixed grain on the top. Did you do any kind of reinforcement there ?

I considered it, but decided against.
My reasoning was that the basic stress on the table is downwards. Since the leg and top are “interlocked”, that’s stress straight down from the jatoba onto the ash leg – and that’s not stress against a glue joint, just wood sitting on wood. The other stresses, pushing the table over, rotating it etc etc, are stresses against the interlocking joint. Given that those joints are simply perfect (which they weren’t, but they were tight), again that’s a wood on wood stress with no glue involved. As I see it, any gluing required is only to stop you being able to “pull the leg out” (for which you’d need a mallet anyway).

BUT – I could be wrong, in which case, someone, please show me the error of my ways!

-- "Do not speak – unless it improves on silence."

A winning design super table.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Very cool design. You’ve created a great looking table.

-- Peter, Woodbridge, Ontario

Very impressive design. Nice wood combo too.

-- Jason - Colorado Springs

Realy unusuall and great design

-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted

I like it very much! Very clean design!

-- "I never met a board I didn't like!"

Are my eyes playing tricks on me, or is each ash strip joined in the center by a 45 degree angle on each side – 12 tight joints in the very center of the table ?

Oh ya… well done !!

Gator

-- Master designer of precision sawdust and one of a kind slivers.