Frank Pellow
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As I have done in past years, I am building something to be sold in the Don Mills Civitan charity auction. My good friend Ron Holt was a member of that group and, now, I am building the item in his memory.
Issue #218 of Wood Magazine contains the plans for an item that they call a sofa server:
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I decided to build such a piece of furniture, but not to use the plan, not to use the same type of wood, not to use the same type of joinery, to ignore the dimensions, and to use my own finishing technique.
This week, I built a sofa server of my own design:
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And I will donate it to the auction that takes place in a couple of weeks.
The main characteristics of the sofa server are:
• Made out of Jatoba (Brazilian Cherry) wood
• No screws or nails (just glue and cherry dowels)
• Hand made from rough sawn planks
• Finished with four coats of (polymerized) Tung Oil
The jataba that I used was purchased at auction from a flooring company at a cut rate price a couple of years ago.
A lot of the wood was badly warped:
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I squared and planed the wood into useable sections making use of a band saw, a table saw, and a jointer/planer/thicknesser. When this was completed, I had a good supply of wood in various lengths widths and thicknesses:
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(I marked the thickness (in millimeters) on each board in chalk)
The joinery I used was nothing at all like that of the plans. All my joints were first glued, such as in the photo of this support assembly:
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And then the joints were strengthened with Miller dowels, such as in these photos:
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I got to use many additional tools, such as the jig saw and the spindle sander utilized for the braces:
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In total, I used thirteen different power tools making this one small piece of furniture. That's kind of surprising to me.
The original plan did not have a lip around the portion of the sofa server where the food is placed. I think that this will result in spillage (it certainly would for me) , so I made a “tray” with a lip:
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and attached it permanently to the top of the unit.
Everything was sanded in stages up to 220 grit; making use of three different sanders and well as some hand sanding:
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Finally, several coats of (polymerized) Tung oil were applied and hand rubbed:
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Issue #218 of Wood Magazine contains the plans for an item that they call a sofa server:
[attachthumb=#1] [attachthumb=#2]
I decided to build such a piece of furniture, but not to use the plan, not to use the same type of wood, not to use the same type of joinery, to ignore the dimensions, and to use my own finishing technique.
This week, I built a sofa server of my own design:
[attachimg=#3]
And I will donate it to the auction that takes place in a couple of weeks.
The main characteristics of the sofa server are:
• Made out of Jatoba (Brazilian Cherry) wood
• No screws or nails (just glue and cherry dowels)
• Hand made from rough sawn planks
• Finished with four coats of (polymerized) Tung Oil
The jataba that I used was purchased at auction from a flooring company at a cut rate price a couple of years ago.
A lot of the wood was badly warped:
[attachthumb=#4]
I squared and planed the wood into useable sections making use of a band saw, a table saw, and a jointer/planer/thicknesser. When this was completed, I had a good supply of wood in various lengths widths and thicknesses:
[attachthumb=#5]
(I marked the thickness (in millimeters) on each board in chalk)
The joinery I used was nothing at all like that of the plans. All my joints were first glued, such as in the photo of this support assembly:
[attachthumb=#6]
And then the joints were strengthened with Miller dowels, such as in these photos:
[attachthumb=#7] [attachthumb=#8] [attachthumb=#9]
I got to use many additional tools, such as the jig saw and the spindle sander utilized for the braces:
[attachthumb=#10] [attachthumb=#11]
In total, I used thirteen different power tools making this one small piece of furniture. That's kind of surprising to me.
The original plan did not have a lip around the portion of the sofa server where the food is placed. I think that this will result in spillage (it certainly would for me) , so I made a “tray” with a lip:
[attachthumb=#12]
and attached it permanently to the top of the unit.
Everything was sanded in stages up to 220 grit; making use of three different sanders and well as some hand sanding:
[attachthumb=#13]
Finally, several coats of (polymerized) Tung oil were applied and hand rubbed:
[attachthumb=#14]
