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Charlie's Dinner Table

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This my Dog Charlie’s new food and water thingy. It’s made from 1” thick yellow pine stair tread with purple heart inlays around the dove tails. The inlays were an after-thought. I’ve seen dove tails with this detail before but I think it’s done differently. I think I took the hard way. This was my first attempt at hand cut dovetails. They were pretty tight but I wasn’t pleased with the results. There were a few gaps in the joints so I decided to make a template and route out an 1/8” deep by 1/4” wide groove around the dovetails and inlay the purple heart. Very tedious work with those little pieces. I also decided to mimic the inlay on the through-tenon on the bottom stretcher. Overall, I’m very pleased with the results. Somebody let me know how to do that double dovetail detail the right way.

-- Tony, Ohio


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CharlieM1958

4587 posts in 755 days


posted 97 days ago

Man, that was a great save on the dovetails. I would have never known you didn’t plan it that way!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

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lew

1756 posts in 292 days


posted 97 days ago

Beautiful Job! Does Charlie approve?

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Michael Hacker

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posted 97 days ago

Great looking project! I have been wanting to make something similar for my Charlie! I think i will borrow your layout!

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trifern

4974 posts in 304 days


posted 97 days ago

Awesome craftsmanship. That truly must be man’s best friend. Thanks for sharing.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

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TheCaver

92 posts in 377 days


posted 97 days ago

Wow, mitered dovetail inlays, I’d say that was the hardest way possible :)

The ‘easy’ way would be to make the tail board purpleheart and one you have the dovetails fitting properly, saw off the tail board flush+thickness of the desired iinlay with the pine. Then proceed to do it all over again with a shim on the left and increased bit height.

Someone on here did a blog with video on this procedure a few months back.

-- Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -Carl Sagan

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Bigbuck

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posted 97 days ago

Very nice, love those dovetails

-- Glenn, New Mexico

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Todd A. Clippinger

2671 posts in 637 days


posted 97 days ago

I’d be eating and drinking in high style if that is where I got my sustenance!

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

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CraftsmanCollective

42 posts in 99 days


posted 97 days ago

Lucky dog, what do the kids eat off?

-- R.Myer Design|Build

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Douglas Krueger

232 posts in 261 days


posted 97 days ago

Another pooch pamper’er in the crowd, after seeing this, my golden is now demanding a seat at the dinner table since I have yet to create a personal gastronomic consumption layout of his very own….........

-- I can so I wood but why are my learning curves always circles

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daltxguy

268 posts in 451 days


posted 97 days ago

Holy cow! I can’t even figure out how you did this, let alone how it is supposed to be done. Nice job on the dovetails! Charlie is one lucky dog.

-- Steve, New Zealand, www.steveracz.com

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Dominic Vanacora

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posted 97 days ago

Dog gone that’s nice work and you used in on a dog feeder! Your Good, Really Good.

-- Dominic, Trinity, Florida...Lets be safe out there.

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Doug S.

217 posts in 245 days


posted 97 days ago

Looks great, but you do realize all that nice work will be covered in dog slobber soon right?

-- Use the fence Luke

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SteveKorz

1419 posts in 251 days


posted 97 days ago

Great job on this… what an incredible save!! This is a terrific looking project.

Also, I think this is what you are looking for.

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)

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Tony Z

151 posts in 327 days


posted 96 days ago

Thanks Steve, that’s exactly what I was looking for.

-- Tony, Ohio

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moshel

135 posts in 221 days


posted 96 days ago

I guess your dog gets Caviar for breakfast? Boy, I hope he appreciate the work! We might check if he published it on lumberdogs.

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

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kenn

138 posts in 257 days


posted 96 days ago

Nice, almost too nice to use except nothing is too nice for man’s best friend. You did it the hard way for sure.

-- Every cloud has a silver lining

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thetimberkid

1684 posts in 240 days


posted 95 days ago

Great job!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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Larry

148 posts in 749 days


posted 95 days ago

my cat is jealous!

-- Larry ------------------------------------------------------- "Have you hugged your pet today?"

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Budgie

93 posts in 475 days


posted 92 days ago

Larry, I’m with you. I’ve wondered for a while if a cat would like something like this. Afterall I use dog bowls for my cats.

-- Bud, NY, http://tpww.libsyn.com/

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ryno101

156 posts in 202 days


posted 52 days ago

I just came across this… wow. Mitered hand cut double dovetails! Seriously… you may not have known the “right” way to do it, but you sure did it right!

-- Ryno

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SCOTSMAN

539 posts in 122 days


posted 38 days ago

I always wondered what Superman did for a hobby now I know superb idea I will make one of these for my dog Bryn thanks again regards Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

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