steve_g
11-03-2015, 02:07 AM
Latest project…
Our customer ordered a “harvest table” Whatever that is… He’s liked our other projects with welded metal legs in the past, so we used 3” X 3” square tubing on this one.
The wood is Hackberry, live edges all around. Hackberry is very prone to spalting and blue stain (from fungus) and this wood exhibits plenty of it!
The tree this wood came from was storm damaged and laid on the ground for 3-4 months before it was milled… The cracks, splits and checks that were present when we put the wood in the kiln only got worse as it dried… we needed to use a lot of bowtie inserts to stabilize it!
The table legs are mounted to the top with piano hinge and fold flat against the top… Don’t get the idea that the folding legs make it “portable”… it weighs a ton!
We surface our slabs on the bot with an Amana carbide insert bit and cut both the male and the female bowties on the bot. We clean up edges with a King Arthur’s tools, Lancelot “chain saw tooth” disk.
http://www.katools.com/shop/carving-tools-lancelot-c-21_30.html
In the end, I’m very pleased with the way the project turned out, but naturally I see things I’ll chance on ver. 2… i.e., I think that the 3X3 tube legs on the benches look too “heavy”, I’ll make them from 2X2 next time!
SG
Our customer ordered a “harvest table” Whatever that is… He’s liked our other projects with welded metal legs in the past, so we used 3” X 3” square tubing on this one.
The wood is Hackberry, live edges all around. Hackberry is very prone to spalting and blue stain (from fungus) and this wood exhibits plenty of it!
The tree this wood came from was storm damaged and laid on the ground for 3-4 months before it was milled… The cracks, splits and checks that were present when we put the wood in the kiln only got worse as it dried… we needed to use a lot of bowtie inserts to stabilize it!
The table legs are mounted to the top with piano hinge and fold flat against the top… Don’t get the idea that the folding legs make it “portable”… it weighs a ton!
We surface our slabs on the bot with an Amana carbide insert bit and cut both the male and the female bowties on the bot. We clean up edges with a King Arthur’s tools, Lancelot “chain saw tooth” disk.
http://www.katools.com/shop/carving-tools-lancelot-c-21_30.html
In the end, I’m very pleased with the way the project turned out, but naturally I see things I’ll chance on ver. 2… i.e., I think that the 3X3 tube legs on the benches look too “heavy”, I’ll make them from 2X2 next time!
SG