Dining table in stained white oak

Falch said:
Tom: Thanks! And sorry (?  [tongue] ) i know the feeling/what happens when the wife likes some furniture and knows i can make it  ::)
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I get that from my Missus family!!

The cheapos!!!

They often come up to me for silly things like a wooden coat hangers or something.    Not because they can't find the one they want or  they want one bigger or it needs to fit some where specific but because it cost £25 or something and think I can make the same cheaper.  

I tell them to stop being cheap bastards and either get a cheap one or just pay for the one you want because ill be charging you double or more.
 
So here goes, my work sketches for the table, the whole shabang :)
It is all in metric, but i guess if you have your sketchup tuned to imperial it will convert itself.

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The sketches are a bit rough, some of the curves are hard, or impossible to draw considering sketchups strongly geometric rules, but you get the drift.
Just ask if there is anything :)

Edit: oh, if a mod has a second please tune the post (i am not sure what i did wrong), somehow the last pic became a thumb and stuff got a little mixed :)
 
Oh, thank you so much for the sketches. Right now I have a long learning curve to follow to achieve your expertise. Will be trying to practice the joints with scrap wood until I am successful. I did not want this post to go dormant before I got as much info on how to build this gorgeous table.I am online right now and is 1.10 in the afternoon (pm) in central USA (Minnesota). I see you are online also. What time is it now over in Norway where you are?
 
i will keep it alive, if not just shoot me a pm :) not beeing overly sure about am/pm (you freaks  [tongue] ) it is 2018 here so i guess it is 8.18 pm :)
 
Fantastic work and just like a guy, you photo it with your laptop instead of a place setting [wink]

Jack
 
Table looks awesome.

How did you the interfacing joints?
More specifically, the square "pocket" at the top of the leg and the V intersection at the outer corner of the top.

Falch said:
The hardest part was actualy making the strongest possbile connection between the legs and tabletop. since i did not have any skirting i was unsure how the legs would hold up to sideways motion, especially since the tabletop, being solid oak, 45mm thick, weighed around 100kg.

This is was i came up with:

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Pared with 2x dominoes and 2x zipbolts, (8mmx90 half newel connectors) pr leg, the result was solid.
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Thanks! Well, they both started out solid/as one solid piece and then i removed stock.
On the top, it was easy. Mark up, and saw/chisel away. The legs were a bit more of a hassle. I had to have a flat "top" in the pocket that was going to touch the top. Came up with a router jig that i clamped to the top of the leg and routed away. This paired with some precise chiseling, and woila! Prest etc. :)

Falch

aosty said:
Table looks awesome.

How did you the interfacing joints?
More specifically, the square "pocket" at the top of the leg and the V intersection at the outer corner of the top.
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Falch said:
Thanks! Well, they both started out solid/as one solid piece and then i removed stock.
On the top, it was easy. Mark up, and saw/chisel away. The legs were a bit more of a hassle. I had to have a flat "top" in the pocket that was going to touch the top. Came up with a router jig that i clamped to the top of the leg and routed away. This paired with some precise chiseling, and woila! Prest etc. :)

Falch
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Ya, that square pocket looks like quite a bit of work to cut accurately, especially by hand.

 
for some reason i no longer can see the pictures you posted...is there a way you can repost them or should i use a specific browser?i tried both, chrome and internet explorer to no avail :(
 
Looking at this on the iPad so also Safari, pictures and attachments are missing. I suspect that this is one of the posts that lost all the nice bits when the moved servers or some such.
 
Yeah a lot of old posts lost pictures so the entire thread becomes worthless.  People talking about how nice something looks but you can't see what it was.  Very annoying.

It's one of the main reasons I have stopped posting my projects on FOG I lost interest.

Some of my pictures got deleted.

I can't be bothered to reinstate them.

FOG to me is going down hill. Not as good as it was.

 
Project pictures might as well not be posted/shared if the site can't support them ....sad.
 
I believe that during a FOG site server upgrade last year some pictures were lost. I think you can search for FOG photo's and find the discussion link.

Jack
 
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