I'm waiting for the lacquer to cure on my latest guitar so it's time to catch up on the back log of "regular" woodworking projects.
I've been wanting to build some copies of this table (from wine barrel staves) that I found on the internet (retail price $600):
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The problem is that they are using some sort of metal hub to hold the staves in place. I didn't want to have something fabricated, so I spent the last year (or two!) thinking it over and finally came up with this solution: an 8 spoked wooden hub. Here's the prototype hub and mock up:
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The mockup: I made the angles 15 degrees for top and bottom, but the stance was a little too narrow, so I increased the bottom legs to 20 degrees.
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Final hubs:
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The building jig: Clamped to the side of my workbench "beams" with a block to keep it stable, then I pocket screwed it to the bottom of the hub. This gave me a way to keep the legs even and hold them in place while putting in the screws. At first I thought I'd need a cross dowel for good grip, then realized that at the angles, I was already getting good cross-grain for the screws.
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With different sized tops. The largest is 28" and it still worked well.
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Making the tops: Wine barrel tops are difficult, they're tounge and grooved and often warped, so not easy to pull them apart the glue them back together. I just make a plywood circle to attach all the pieces to so they stay together.
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Almost done:
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Making the skirt: Had to use 1" long self tapping metal screws, was a serious amount of springback on the barrel hoops after cutting and making them a smaller diameter. Painted black of course.
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And done. I think the "waiste" came out a little too tight. In retrospect, I think I'd make the hub wider (these were 8") and bring the tapers of the bottoms out further to match the one I found on the web. Then change the angles to 25 degrees maybe.
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I've been wanting to build some copies of this table (from wine barrel staves) that I found on the internet (retail price $600):
[attachthumb=1]
The problem is that they are using some sort of metal hub to hold the staves in place. I didn't want to have something fabricated, so I spent the last year (or two!) thinking it over and finally came up with this solution: an 8 spoked wooden hub. Here's the prototype hub and mock up:
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The mockup: I made the angles 15 degrees for top and bottom, but the stance was a little too narrow, so I increased the bottom legs to 20 degrees.
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Final hubs:
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The building jig: Clamped to the side of my workbench "beams" with a block to keep it stable, then I pocket screwed it to the bottom of the hub. This gave me a way to keep the legs even and hold them in place while putting in the screws. At first I thought I'd need a cross dowel for good grip, then realized that at the angles, I was already getting good cross-grain for the screws.
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With different sized tops. The largest is 28" and it still worked well.
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Making the tops: Wine barrel tops are difficult, they're tounge and grooved and often warped, so not easy to pull them apart the glue them back together. I just make a plywood circle to attach all the pieces to so they stay together.
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Almost done:
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Making the skirt: Had to use 1" long self tapping metal screws, was a serious amount of springback on the barrel hoops after cutting and making them a smaller diameter. Painted black of course.
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And done. I think the "waiste" came out a little too tight. In retrospect, I think I'd make the hub wider (these were 8") and bring the tapers of the bottoms out further to match the one I found on the web. Then change the angles to 25 degrees maybe.
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