Coffee Table

[Vindingo]

Thanks Kreg and Jay.  I prefer this work to "construction" work any day!

Are those hull forms I see hanging on the workshop wall?  What kind of boat?

I want to build a boat... but that is an old project I can't bring myself to throw out.  It was part of my M.Arch thesis project.
Here is a small photo collage

will be fun to see it in place when the room renovation is done!

I'm excited for it as well.  I just finished installing some collar ties for the room.  The room had a flat ceiling with a truss roof.  We ripped out all of the trusses, raised the plate height and cathedraled the ceiling.  
I got the wood from a local saw mill. ($1 bd.ft.!!!)  rough cut 4x8x14' poplar that I am going to stain dark, left rough with mill marks.  

Obligatory Festool shot... notice the custom saw horses

More pics to come, but I think I will start a different renovation thread.

 

[Vindingo]

Got a pic of the bottom?

Not at the moment.  You can just make out the legs of the table packed up in sheets, under plastic in the next room. 

Anything in particular you are curious about? 

 

[GhostFist]

Stupid and rather novice question here I suppose. How is the stability on a table top like this? I'm seeing a lot of furniture like this lately and it looks awesome but it's a question I've had for a while and haven't had the bollocks to ask.

 

[Vindingo]

Stupid and rather novice question here I suppose. How is the stability on a table top like this? I'm seeing a lot of furniture like this lately and it looks awesome but it's a question I've had for a while and haven't had the bollocks to ask.

stable enough  [tongue] 

I would bet that two people could stand on it in the middle, maybe 3.  The one end that cantilevers about 12" past the legs could probably hold 35lbs w/o lifting the other end up.  It sits 18" off of the ground, so it isn't tall enough to be wobbly. 

The legs are welded to a 1/8" L-shaped steel plate, plenty strong for this application. 

 

[GhostFist]

I kinda meant more in terms of the planks warping. think looks strong as hell, just curious with it being only two large planks with the same grain orientation. Again I don't work with hardwood on this scale so I honestly don't know, not being critical it looks stunning.

 

[Vindingo]

I kinda meant more in terms of the planks warping. think looks strong as hell, just curious with it being only two large planks with the same grain orientation. Again I don't work with hardwood on this scale so I honestly don't know, not being critical it looks stunning.

ahhh... I read "stability" in terms of tipping over and holding weight.  I didn't take your question as critical, hence the tongue out smiley face.  [thumbs up] 

To be honest, I have no idea either. 

The boards were twisted and warped when I started working with them.  I ripped them with the TS 55 in order to get a glue surface, but didn't do much in the way of trying to flatten them prior to glue up. I also didn't want to attempt to clamp them flat.  After the glue up the boards were still twisted and bowed at bit, and that is when the router sled came into play. 

I bet I took 1/2"-5/8" off of the actual thickness, only hitting the high spots with the router.  I set my baseline as the lowest point on the board and went from there.  My rational, which may be flawed, was that instead of trying to clamp it flat and inducing stress into the boards, I shave off the high spots instead.  The boards I started with were a heavy 8/4 so I had that luxury. 

It has remained dead flat for about a month, but I guess time will tell.  I have had issues with smaller panel glue ups warping, but that happened the day after the glue up.  That was another reason why I waited until after this glue up to plane the boards.  The other pieces were only 1/4" so they couldn't be planed any further.  If it does warp, I will post up about it.