joseph j shields
04-20-2009, 11:23 PM
…for my sofa table:):):) ... (what were you thinking!!)
I’m building a sofa table for my church auction and the legs are made of lacewood. The problem is only the opposite surfaces (front and back) have the beautiful lacewood pattern. The right & left sides show none of the pattern and are quite boring. (picture 5)
What I needed is to have adjacent sides to have the pattern.
I know there are several ways to deal with this, but most seems way to complicated. So here is my easy solution:
1.I started out by building a simple jig for my bandsaw to cut the legs from corner to corner. (I decided the table saw would be too difficult.) The jig was very easy to construct and it worked great. I cut all 4 legs in about 5 minutes. (picture 2&3)
2.I then lightly hand sanded the cut sides.
3.I then rotated one of the pieces 180 degrees so that I had 2 good sides adjacent to each other.
4.I glued-up the pieces. I was surprised how easy it was to do this. My Festool table really helped. I just adjusted the different clamps pressure to ensure the edges were matching perfectly. (Picture 4)
5.After they dried, a couple of passes on the jointer and the thickness planer, and finally a couple passes on the table saw for the tappers and I was done.
I’m very pleased with the results. Now, all the outside facing surfaces of the legs look great with the lacewood pattern. (Picture 1)
Comments/questions welcome.
-jj
I’m building a sofa table for my church auction and the legs are made of lacewood. The problem is only the opposite surfaces (front and back) have the beautiful lacewood pattern. The right & left sides show none of the pattern and are quite boring. (picture 5)
What I needed is to have adjacent sides to have the pattern.
I know there are several ways to deal with this, but most seems way to complicated. So here is my easy solution:
1.I started out by building a simple jig for my bandsaw to cut the legs from corner to corner. (I decided the table saw would be too difficult.) The jig was very easy to construct and it worked great. I cut all 4 legs in about 5 minutes. (picture 2&3)
2.I then lightly hand sanded the cut sides.
3.I then rotated one of the pieces 180 degrees so that I had 2 good sides adjacent to each other.
4.I glued-up the pieces. I was surprised how easy it was to do this. My Festool table really helped. I just adjusted the different clamps pressure to ensure the edges were matching perfectly. (Picture 4)
5.After they dried, a couple of passes on the jointer and the thickness planer, and finally a couple passes on the table saw for the tappers and I was done.
I’m very pleased with the results. Now, all the outside facing surfaces of the legs look great with the lacewood pattern. (Picture 1)
Comments/questions welcome.
-jj