Red Oak & Black Walnut coffeetable #4: almost finished for real this time

Isaac, I don’t think you have a problem with the legs. they look fine to me. How are you going to attach them to the top? That top looks real thick. A good job of joining.

-- Thos. Angle

beautiful indeed

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Debbie, thanks for agreeing with me, i was beginning to wonder if perhaps i was just to proud of it or something.

Thos, after setting the top onto the legs i agree with you now. as far as attaching them goes, if you’ll look at the web album again you will see a rectangular steel frame about half way through the pics. it’s resting on the bottom of the table. well what i did was to rabbit out that shape with a router such that the frame fits flush with the bottom of the table when it is inserted into the area that i routed out. then i attached the frame to the legs with 3” x 5/16” lag screws, 2 per leg, by drilling through the frame. i used a spade bit to inset the hex bolt heads into the table so that when i set it down on top of the frame with legs all you see is legs attaching to table but you don’t see how. all in all its very sturdy but i won’t do it again. next time will be a little more traditional. thanks for the joinery comment but if you saw how i did it all you might not be so generous, but i’m learning and that’s what’s important.

-- "Who but a fool would discard seeminly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent engineering" -- Aldo Leopold

does the “how” matter when the end result works?

Is it finished yet? ;) :D

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)