well, it's saturday, it is snowing pretty hard, the music is good,
and i am thinking of having a beer ..
i'm on a roll with the blog posting, two so far, so here's another ...
i've got my beer now .. here we go ...
there is our inspoiration photo from the client, and our first mockup
using the tooling for the apron we had on hand. the apron knife i used
was one i had made previously for big cove moldings and pencil trays ..
not perfect! we had to have a custom knife cut based on a section of an angled oval ...
once the knife arrived, we ran em ... no problemo
we used some nice walnut from irion lumber,
5/4, 6/4, and 16/4 for the legs ... a couple thousand $$ of it ..
54 x 88 with one 18" leaf ... pretty big table!
next we used what we refer to as our 'holes and pins' jig ...
it never fails to line everything up
drill bushings from mcmaster-carr
center aligned ... good up to 6' diameter tables
drill one half one way, the other, the other way ..
one of my handiest jigs ever ...
where was i? oh yeah, attaching the legs ...
we devised a sort of complicated pair of corner blocks,
for each corner, pocket screwed to the 6/4 aprons ...
the top and bottom blockes were, in the end, connected with pieces
of 3/4 ply that were later screwed to the vertical square tenon on
the top of the leg. we also included a 2.5" #12 wood screw
down through the center of the top block. a very rugged connection
considering the deisgn ...
kristian ran the fluted details on the cnc using a 1/2" round nose bit,
many passes, on 1/16th" centers perpendicular to the center line of the legs
hard to describe til you see it happen ..
it took about 6 minutes per flute, four flutes per leg
it took 3 tries to get the leg design approved .. i think if you blow this one up
you can see the tool paths on the poplar test piece
so there you have it, upside down, and ....
right side up ... headed to tampa sometime in early 2022 ...
anothe challenge, for sure!
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