butzla
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My 14 year old daughter recently came into my shop with this old plant table that she found in the attic.
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She asked me if I could fix the crack in the table top so she could paint it and use it for a cell phone station in her room. Frowning at the p.o.s. that was bestowed upon me, I kinda raised my brow and asked her if she'd rather I made her a new table. Knowing how long it takes me to make things she politely told me that it was ok, she'd rather just fix this old one up. I shrugged my shoulders and nodded in agreement and sent her on her way. I was right in the middle of making a couple of complex golf lockers for our garage that I still haven't finished, after all.
"It takes me a long time?!" That was the old me. The guy who didn't have any Festools in his shop. I was determined to prove her wrong. Scanning the shop inventory for the requisite lumber, I found some shorts of figured maple for aprons and top and another of 6/4 cherry that would do nicely for legs. This is the result of my efforts:
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I'm not out to win any awards here, merely posting to prove what can be accomplished in a short period of time using "The System". I used dominoes for the joinery, my MFT3 and RO150 / ETS125 sanders for the finishing. The whole project took me 3.5 hours to complete, including designing, rough dimensioning, joinery and sanding. The finish took me a total of about another hour over 3 days.
My mindset in designing was to use flaired legs so the table wouldn't be so easy to topple but still keeping it in basically the same footprint as the old table. So easy to accomplish with the Domino, not so easy with traditional joinery.
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PS My daughter is very happy with her new table and I dare say....impressed? Nah....she's 14 after all.
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She asked me if I could fix the crack in the table top so she could paint it and use it for a cell phone station in her room. Frowning at the p.o.s. that was bestowed upon me, I kinda raised my brow and asked her if she'd rather I made her a new table. Knowing how long it takes me to make things she politely told me that it was ok, she'd rather just fix this old one up. I shrugged my shoulders and nodded in agreement and sent her on her way. I was right in the middle of making a couple of complex golf lockers for our garage that I still haven't finished, after all.
"It takes me a long time?!" That was the old me. The guy who didn't have any Festools in his shop. I was determined to prove her wrong. Scanning the shop inventory for the requisite lumber, I found some shorts of figured maple for aprons and top and another of 6/4 cherry that would do nicely for legs. This is the result of my efforts:
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I'm not out to win any awards here, merely posting to prove what can be accomplished in a short period of time using "The System". I used dominoes for the joinery, my MFT3 and RO150 / ETS125 sanders for the finishing. The whole project took me 3.5 hours to complete, including designing, rough dimensioning, joinery and sanding. The finish took me a total of about another hour over 3 days.
My mindset in designing was to use flaired legs so the table wouldn't be so easy to topple but still keeping it in basically the same footprint as the old table. So easy to accomplish with the Domino, not so easy with traditional joinery.
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PS My daughter is very happy with her new table and I dare say....impressed? Nah....she's 14 after all.
