Top
Once I had the top glued up, I realized I really should have used some biscuits to align everything. I had some serious steps between the boards and some very visible glue lines.
I made a quick cross cut sled (in about 5 minutes) and was able to trim the ends of the top. I double checked with both a combo square and my framers square and both were dead on 90s.
I really needed to sand the tabletop down. The vigorous scraping had left the top surface feeling very uneven. My brother offered his thickness sander and I took him up on it. Unfortunately, that left me with a bigger problem—major burn marks. Nothing a nice scraper couldn’t fix.
Legs
The legs needed to be trimmed to width, so they went through the table saw and then planer.
After that, they needed to be thicknessed to 1.5” (when the 1/4” walnut centered), trimmed to length, and tapered.
-- Dan, Rochester, NY
5 comments so far
JamesVavra
home | projects | blog
255 posts in 1481 days
#1 posted 606 days ago
Looking nice.
I’ve found that my drum sander tends to make those burn marks when the belt is not wrapped tightly enough and overlaps itself just tiny little bit. It makes it sand just a bit deeper at that spot, and the extra friction heats it up enough to burn. Shutting it off and adjusting the belt back to the correct position generally helps, but once it’s slipped like that it tends to keep going back to the wrong position over and over..
James
superstretch
home | projects | blog
1456 posts in 858 days
#2 posted 606 days ago
That was my guess too. Thankfully, everything worked out after some more scraping
-- Dan, Rochester, NY
SASmith
home | projects | blog
1365 posts in 1152 days
#3 posted 606 days ago
Looking good. The scraper was a good solution to the burning. I converted my drumsanders to hook and loop and no longer have any burning.
-- Scott Smith, Southern Illinois
JamesVavra
home | projects | blog
255 posts in 1481 days
#4 posted 606 days ago
@SASmith – that’s a fantastic idea. I just got a box of like 16 non-velcro belts though, so I will have to wait just a bit.
SASmith
home | projects | blog
1365 posts in 1152 days
#5 posted 606 days ago
@james The hook backed paper is more expensive but will pay for itself with a much longer life.
-- Scott Smith, Southern Illinois
Have your say...