Here at the brick and mortar store Lincoln Hardwood and Tool Co. Inc. we do custom woodworking jobs as well (we have to use the tools to sell the tools).  The pics below are a 16' Long x 6' Wide in the middle...tapering to 5' Wide on the ends.  We just started the table a couple of days ago by building a large caul table.  The 6/4 Alder boards will be Domino'ed together and clamped with intermittent spline as well.

I'll keep you all posted on the progress.

This is not near as fancy as Jerry's Table....Jerry, NICELY DONE MIGHT I ADD....but it does pose it's challenges.

Timmy C

PS.  Unfortunately, my oldest boy is in his school production of "Dames at Sea" right now and has opening night coming up this week.  I wish he could have joined in on project.   

Wow Timmy that is gonna be a pretty impressive table. You guys need to buy a big honkin jointer plane to flatten that puppy. I know where you can find a Bedrock 607 to help flatten that little table

Keep the pics coming

Dan Clermont

Did you get build notes for the Ark from Per's Dad?

Not sure about a laptop (never use one), but on a standard keyboard you can get an upper case c by holding down the alt key and then pressing 067 on the numeric keypad.  Not nearly as convenient, but if you really need it......

Fred

Timmy,
I'm sweating just thinking about having enough open time to glue up those parts and get them aligned and cauled!  What kind of glue will you use for this?
Matthew

We will attempt the ole Spray On some Sherwin BAC (tinted to match their existing furniture) and then wipe at about 99% dry; my shoulder is already hurting just thinking about it.  For the top-coats we will spray on KemVar conversion varnish to the tune of about 3-4 coats.  We use a Binks 2001 Pressure Pot to spray.

Between coats we will use a couple of ETS 150/3's with the Interface pad and some 400 grit Br2. 

Sale Plug Ahead.  If you don't want to read it, don't click.

The most laborious aspect of the finish will be the "hand abrading" with these >>> Webb Detail Sponges <<<  Luckily I have Randy in the shop that has arms as long as a gorilla.  I will be doing the edges... 

We are actually a distributor of Webb Abrasives  ....Matthew, please feel free to place that last remark in the "Sales Zone".

Timmy C

So is it like a luthier press? Are you using a windlass technique with the ropes and wedges, or conventional clamps? 

Make sure you have a non-participant there to document so you don't end up epoxying a camera to your palms. 

Timmy, I don't care how long Randy's or anyone elses arms are. It appears that the table starts in Nebraska and ends in Kansas.  That is an amazing project and truly worthy of world domination talks.  If the Webb sponges hold up for you like the ones you sent me have held up it is not going to be nearly as laborious as it may seem. To everyone else I have used some of these Webb Sponges and they are terrific. I expected them to be much like all the rest that I have used and just disinegrate and instead like the Energizer Bunny they just kept going and going. Fred

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Randy's theory is solid however!  Failure is not an option!
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Hey Timmy,

How much is shipping on the 6 foot wide 16 foot long failed plank to Point Robert's 

I am pulling for you guys! Wouldn't want to be there during the glue up.  Thanks but no thanks

Keep us posted

Dan Clermont

Timmy,

If you need some inspiration, there are a bunch of Maloof videos Here 

Scott W.

Timmy C, Domino dovetails??? I think you need to send that to Sam Maloof and see what he thinks. Fred

So, what's the Domino count up to?

Scott W.

And every one on the narrowest setting I assume 

Can't wait to see it when complete. Keep the photos coming.

Scott W.

Duh!!!  Wouldn't allow it any other way.  I think the Domino total was 119ish.  We had to be careful where the "would-be" radius was being cut. Didn't want the Doms popping through.

Timmy,
  What type of scraper did you use to flatten that after the glue up?     Or was it a six foot wide belt sander?     Great work!     



PS Is that my new Trion you're testing? 

Using the Dominos was a huge help in conjunction with "the Ark."  There was very little edge slop.  We used the 850 at about a half mm.  and cleaned up some high spots and glue issues.  pics below

Here a couple of shots of the edge left by the Trion, and lopping off the end with the 75.

  Ahhh, nothing like the prospect of scraping a table flat to help chase away the flu bug.  I actually enjoy this part.  I would probably have passed the table through an overhead sander in narrow sections, 2 or 3, & then glued them together last.  That leaves only one or two seams to chase down.  I don't have a portable plane so have always gone right to scrapers after the sander.  I love my Stanley #80m with a hock scraping blade.  You can move in any direction, flattening from all directions.  The satisfaction of cutting with planes & scrapers rules.  It's all in how you sharpen, but once you learn these tools it's amazing.  I've scraped many banded edges flush to veneer, so as to just kiss the veneer.      I'll final sand over the scraped surface with the D/A sander at 150 grit, as the finishers hate too shiny a finish sanding/scraping.  Scrapers are great for the inlay work also, such as string inlays.

Keep up the posts on this one Timmy, great work!

PS  That Trion sure cuts sweetly, when are you sending it to me? 

Timmy,
  That looks great!!!!!!!!  Now go home, & get some sleep, before you pass out & fall off the table.  It's hard to put down a sharp plane though, I know I've been there brother.     Oh, & bring some curls from the plane home to show the wife, then watch her say "nice dear" & roll her eyes.       

P.S.  That UPS link shows as not in the system yet.  Did it just ship today?

How big a floor?  A closet or a ballroom?   

jrb, thats a shocking remark 

suggesting that a festool member leaves dust anywhere

i sell myself on the ability to leave the  miimum dust possible with my kit

Terp, I just shot you an e-mail.

Thanks for the kind words on the table.  That is exactly what momma would say...lol

Remember, gotta rough it before you can buff it. 

Looking good Timmy!!! My arms feel like they are gonna fall off from watching that guy joint that table!!! He's gonna be pretty strong when he is done!

Keep the pics coming

Dan Clermont

Unfortunately, that is not I on the table; that is Mr. Randy.  My physical condition has allowed me to take pictures only over the past few days.  Randy is much bigger and younger than I.

Timmy

Timmy, now that just cracked me up. How was the dust collection on that plane? Fred

Timmy,
  You've made a lie neilson plane that sucks.  It's a first, usually they don't suck!  I've never seen one, in fact.  You should send it to lie & tell him it sucks   

  Seriously man, leave the plane curls on the floor.  You can't breath them in & it looks real impressive strewn about from a hand plane.  Unless, you are making dust.  Don't you sell waterstones?   

Sweet Work Timmy!

nickao

If you know anyone interested, I have 2 pieces of Waterfall Bubinga one 41 inches wide the other 36 inches wide. Both are 8/4 and 12 feet long. $75.00 a BF. This is some beautiful stuff. This would make one heck of a confrence table.

That is nice bonus, and the table looks great, but,
 
if there was ever a project that called out for

a Festool belt sander with sanding frame,

this was it.

Whilst I was away on a little spring break action with the Fam.  Randy has made leaps...perhaps bounds...(he is sometimes light on his feet) with the table.  After the purchase of yet another LN scraper, I think we are ready for some RS 2 E and some ETS 150/3 action.

Here are some latest shop pics.

Timmy C

Randy has done just a Ultra-Spectabulous job on the table.  He has an airbrush ready to shoot some special sauce on the edges, after the profile is cut, to get the table to look just like their existing furniture.  Super Job RW!!!

I'll let the guru tell you his finishing plans.  I have been a bit out of the loop a for a bit due to this darned Sinass thing and the fam spring break.  I am sure Randy has a "triple lutz" type maneuver all planned out.

Take it RW!!!

Timmy

Randy, thank you for a beautifully detailed write up on the table. I LOVE the number 8. That table is truly going to be a work of art and you guys should be majorly proud of what you have accomplished. I do not know how many projects of this size and scope you have done prior but regardless this project should put you on the map of many companies and individuals. Congrats and I cannot wait to see the finished product. Fred

Ha ha,

I have to tell this story again,

We are at the world renowned M. L. Condon lumber in Yonkers NY.

Huge slabs of Bubinga in the Back shed, (when these things were really rare.)

I said I'll take one, the guy said they are sold.

I mentioned how hard it would be to flatten one for a table.

Guy laughed, " said the customer comes and brings a old man with a floor sander,

does it right here. Comes with the legs and delivers them straight to the jobs and finishes on sight."

Ya gotta love it.

Per

RW, congrats on the happy occasion. What a wonderful thing when something that difficult falls in line and actually exceeds your expectations.  Can't wait to see the pics. Kick Timmy, I mean his camera in the rear and get that thing workin.  Fred

Go slow when you get home. Why rush back to work, it isn't going anywhere! Take it easy Tim. I hope everything goes smoothly tomorrow.

Nick

Timmy, I am wishing you all the best so like get it over with, get well and get back.  Fred

Timmy, that table is looking better and better by the day. Gorgeous job guys. Wasn't Stryker one of the characters in the Leslie Nielsen police films? Good luck dude. Fred

That's looking great Timmy.  Can't wait to see the final product.

Yuck!

No, that was in a Lie-Nielsen video. 

As late as yesterday afternoon.

Hey Nick, yes the Alder is something that i have used many times before.  Over the past couple years cabinets, knotty alder trim, and places like Pottery Barn and Restoration Hardware have promoted Alder as some exotic wood (in my opinion).  I began using Alder in some of the replications I did.  You used to be able to pick up Alder cheap...truly the "Poor Man's Cherry"; however, any more it is not as much of a bargain.  Matching the existing furniture at the bank was important.  They started with Alder, so we replicated that in the table.  Sometimes Alder can be a bit squirrely but we had pretty good yield, and luck with it.

Timmy

Timmy & RW, I cannot wait to see the top once it has been rubbed out. As it is it is gorgeous but I can just imagine the final results.  By the way, if you have seen the clip here on the forum of the polishing by the Rotex on bare wood well then as a Festool dealer it behooves you to use this marvelous tool on the table top and of course video it.  Fred

Table Update.  We have been a bit slammed with the repacking of the MFT/3's (NOT A PLUG!).  So much so that I missed getting pics of the initial hand rub RW did with a block, pumice, and his special sauce; Paraffin Oil and Mineral Spirits.  He uses a hard felt block, the "special sauce" and then 1500grit wet dry paper.  On some of the "pits" that developed, he added drops of lacquer and came back over them to smooth it. 

However, I did come out of the "Junkie Command Center" to get some shots of the mechanical rub.

We are using the ETS 150/3 with a 1/2" foam interface pad and Hard Felt.  Sander setting is between 2 and 3ish.

The tale is getting to be as smooth as a "....... " (you fill in the blank).  Actually, it would be fun to hear/read some of those analogies...lol

Timmy

Only if it was Festool Nick 

Nice to hear you got locked in your shop yesterday.  Hopefully you got a ton-o-work done.  I know you have a deadline coming up.

Timmy

Yup, Mr. RW is indeed doing the sanding.  Sinuses and Finish Dust just don't mix.  Buy by golly, I could do it...lol.

We go to install tomorrow.  Here is a couple that I don't believe I have posted.

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Side Note:  As most of you know the sinus thing went so smooth it was scary.  However, I got a call from my E.N.T. two days ago on my personal cellular.  I typically don't answer "Private" numbers on my personal...so I just let it ride until I could get to vm.  Four calls in a matter of 2 hours.  I finally pick it up, and it is the E.N.T. !!!  Using his personal cellular???  Go figr.  Anywhose, evidently my cultures came back and they cannot identify the "fungus based bacteria" that is working to bring me down in my sinus.  So, i get to go to an "infectious disease" specialist at the end of the month.  I asked him if I should be worried about it, and he replied: "they don't seem to worried if they don't have room for you until the end of the month." 

So, WEAR A MASK WHEN YOU ARE WORKING WITH WOOD!  All of this started a couple years ago when I was working with a lot of Bubinga, Wenge, and Cocobola...I am going to get my card scraper out and take some samples of the shaving to the specialist....stay tuned for further update.

Seriously folks, WEAR A MASK WHEN YOU ARE WORKING WOOD.  Perhaps a Festool Mask would make this chore of putting one on easier...

Timmy C

Hi Timmy, the table is absolutely beautiful.

On your side note my culture always comes back with a "really rare fungus which is very hard to get rid of" that is my doc's words.  It seems that we can get under control for short periods of time then it comes back.  Sinuses problems suck.  I would not get to worried just because your doctor has never seen that fungus, the specialist may know what it is right off the bat.  I had a skin issue where my skin was rotting off my hands and neck and the dermatologist did a culture and told me they had no idea what it was but they gave 3 different medicines to take care of infection and fungus.  They also gave me silverdine to cure the wound from the inside out.  My point to this rambling is they cured me and I have not had another breakout.  Wish you all the luck.

Dan, are you going to pick up the picture cop's badge? 

Today was the big day.  The table was finally delivered to Community Bank of Lincoln.  Randy did an absolutely marvy job with this thing, and I would like to say Thanks for the hard work Rdub.  Very nicely done!!!

Timmy