Hetzenauer
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- Mar 24, 2008
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Hi folks,
Although I've been reading this great forum for quite a while now I have never posted much so far. I'm just a hobbyist and have a very small shop. I love the Festool system since I don't have any room for the standard larger woodworking machines (cabinet saw, jointer, planer etc.).
Recently, me and my girlfriend have started building our own furniture and this is the first project we have completed using 'real' wood (instead of MDF). We called it the 'split table' and its made of 5 different species of wood (zebra wood, African padoek, jatoba, wenge and hard maple). Even though our local woodsupplier told us to think twice before using all these different kinds of wood in one project, we persisted and so far the table remains in good shape.
This was the final result (took us about 4 weeks):
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This is how we build it:
We started out with pre-milled and jointed pieces of wood, either 2x2 or 2x4 cm and about 160 cm long (sry guys, using the metric system here ;D).
First we matched the pieces for color and got rid of the curved pieces.
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Then we decided how the final tabletop pattern would become by partly covering it with paper.
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Even though we had sorted out the worst pieces there was still quite a lot of slight convex or concave pieces left. Therefore we decided to connected the pieces using Domino's (the 5x30mm ones) to keep them aligned during the glue-up. And as you can see, we used lots of them... (I think about 450 in the whole project, that's 900 holes! :'()
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We did the glue-up in parts and then sanded the newly formed boards separately before finally glueing them all together. (Something I wont be doing next time since it induced some slight difference in height between boards due to sanding). Sanding consumed about 50% of our time. Mostly using the Rotex 150 starting with Rubin p100 and later Brilliant 2 p120 and p180 before finishing.
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Once all boards were glued together, we crosscut them to final dimensions using the ATF-55 with guiderail.
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Using the MFS with the OF1010 I routed the spaces for the stainless steel legs. In the process I exposed a Domino which wasn't meant to be, but not a real problem either. We had the 8 mm stainless steel table legs custom made.
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Although I've been reading this great forum for quite a while now I have never posted much so far. I'm just a hobbyist and have a very small shop. I love the Festool system since I don't have any room for the standard larger woodworking machines (cabinet saw, jointer, planer etc.).
Recently, me and my girlfriend have started building our own furniture and this is the first project we have completed using 'real' wood (instead of MDF). We called it the 'split table' and its made of 5 different species of wood (zebra wood, African padoek, jatoba, wenge and hard maple). Even though our local woodsupplier told us to think twice before using all these different kinds of wood in one project, we persisted and so far the table remains in good shape.
This was the final result (took us about 4 weeks):
[attachimg=#1]
This is how we build it:
We started out with pre-milled and jointed pieces of wood, either 2x2 or 2x4 cm and about 160 cm long (sry guys, using the metric system here ;D).
First we matched the pieces for color and got rid of the curved pieces.
[attachimg=#2]
Then we decided how the final tabletop pattern would become by partly covering it with paper.
[attachimg=#3]
Even though we had sorted out the worst pieces there was still quite a lot of slight convex or concave pieces left. Therefore we decided to connected the pieces using Domino's (the 5x30mm ones) to keep them aligned during the glue-up. And as you can see, we used lots of them... (I think about 450 in the whole project, that's 900 holes! :'()
[attachimg=#4]
[attachimg=#5]
We did the glue-up in parts and then sanded the newly formed boards separately before finally glueing them all together. (Something I wont be doing next time since it induced some slight difference in height between boards due to sanding). Sanding consumed about 50% of our time. Mostly using the Rotex 150 starting with Rubin p100 and later Brilliant 2 p120 and p180 before finishing.
[attachimg=#6]
Once all boards were glued together, we crosscut them to final dimensions using the ATF-55 with guiderail.
[attachimg=#7]
Using the MFS with the OF1010 I routed the spaces for the stainless steel legs. In the process I exposed a Domino which wasn't meant to be, but not a real problem either. We had the 8 mm stainless steel table legs custom made.
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(don't know the English word, added a picture below) but we thought the table surface would be small enough to go without one.
