I NEED to figure out how to build this table - Awesome!

Yeah, I have seen this before…..insane! I would love to see the mechanics on it my self.
Let me know if you find anything out.

-- Randon Riegsecker, crosscutservices.com

This is the guy who makes them at this website Maybe he can help :)

http://www.dbfletcher.com/capstan-table/

Hope this helps :)

-- Proverbs Ch:3 vs 5,6,7 Trust in the lord with all thine heart and lean not unto your own understanding but in all your ways aknowledge him and he shall direct your path elmerthomas81@neo.rr.com

Here is one version with removable leafs.
Looks crazy expensive to make:

http://www.waterfront-woods.com/Projects/RoundTable/TableBlog.html

-- Lovin' sawdust in beautiful Fort Collins, Colorado

OK, that is one cool table, I wonder what it cost to make not alone what it goes for.

-- David, Mesa Arizona

Sawblade, the dbfletcher site is the ones that hold the copyrights and the patents on this design. The Table in the video sells for 32,000 pounds! That’s about $50,100.00 US. It would probably take a year to make the thing, less the materials, you’d make about $3.00 an hour that year. =) Even WITH a CNC router.

-- Lovin' sawdust in beautiful Fort Collins, Colorado

Yeah! Put me down for a couple.

-- Michael :-{| Diapers and politicians both need to be changed often; and for the same reason.

Looking at the movement of the segments and the person’s action to cause the movement, it must, at least partly, work like a 3-jaw lathe chuck. the pie shaped segments must have pins extending down into a disk with a spiral cam groove(s) in it. that could account for the in and out movement of the segments. I suppose the parts that lift up from below must ride some sort of cam as well, but that’s a good trick to make it all work so smoothly and sync up without gaps. Impressive if it was metal, un-imaginable how to do this with wood.

-- Michael :-{| Diapers and politicians both need to be changed often; and for the same reason.

That’s a super cool story. I’ve just heard that the company making those tables keeps a close eye on the plans and nobody else has them. I thought the Jupes table had leafs the slid down inside the center of the table while it was in the open position:

Or had loose leafs that you had to place when the table was open:

I really like the first design that has the leafs that drop in the middle. I’d build one of those if you can find the plans.

-- Lovin' sawdust in beautiful Fort Collins, Colorado

Here is another very cool manual design that would probably be more up everyone’s ally.

-- Lovin' sawdust in beautiful Fort Collins, Colorado

this is like a drug. Very addicting. Maybe we should design our own version. this is great!

-- Randon Riegsecker, crosscutservices.com

Maybe we should have a Lumberjocks challenge to build and post a small version of this style of table.
I would be interested in something like that.

-- Lovin' sawdust in beautiful Fort Collins, Colorado

Thanks Al, believe me, I’m not giving this up. I want to build one, even if it’s a small one.
I think I’m going to go after the folding leafs, or the ones that flip and store in the middle.
The one with the rising star looks like a little too much to handle.

-- Lovin' sawdust in beautiful Fort Collins, Colorado

I went back to my blog entry in 2007 which has a couple of Jupe table resources to find Fauber's revolving extension table in 1886 and a 2003 patent which, at the time I read both of them, I chalked up to “new materials, old design”.

-- Dan Lyke, Petaluma California, http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke

I’m amazed!

-- Bruce from Central New York...now, if you'll pardon me, I have some sawdust to make.

I am wanting to try the one that the leaves fold into the middle. It will be a good goal for the next year.

-- Randon Riegsecker, crosscutservices.com