Brad Wood
05-16-2009, 10:01 AM
Hey all,
This seems like a silly question to me, and I suspect a lot of the replies will be based on personal style more than anything else.
I'm about to start my first large project - large in scale, not necessarily in complexity. I will be making a dining table for our house. LOML normally stays out of my woodworking "process", but this time she is heavily involved and all the design elements are really hers... sort of like she is the customer.
Well, now she is starting to inject her opinions on "how" I should do things, like which part of the table should be done first. As it happens, her and I are exact opposite in how we would approach the actual construction/assembly. I'll not reveal which of the two options we side on.
This seems like a silly question to me, but now that she is trying to debate me on the merits of one way over the other, she has me questioning my logic/perspective (darn women)
Keep in mind, my shop is a multifunction garage with limited work space.
Would you assemble the top, set it out of the way and assemble the base. Or, would you assemble the base first and then the top
(The table is going to be your basic table with laminated boards for the top, basic mortise/tenon style base... if that makes a difference)
Thank you for your input :D
This seems like a silly question to me, and I suspect a lot of the replies will be based on personal style more than anything else.
I'm about to start my first large project - large in scale, not necessarily in complexity. I will be making a dining table for our house. LOML normally stays out of my woodworking "process", but this time she is heavily involved and all the design elements are really hers... sort of like she is the customer.
Well, now she is starting to inject her opinions on "how" I should do things, like which part of the table should be done first. As it happens, her and I are exact opposite in how we would approach the actual construction/assembly. I'll not reveal which of the two options we side on.
This seems like a silly question to me, but now that she is trying to debate me on the merits of one way over the other, she has me questioning my logic/perspective (darn women)
Keep in mind, my shop is a multifunction garage with limited work space.
Would you assemble the top, set it out of the way and assemble the base. Or, would you assemble the base first and then the top
(The table is going to be your basic table with laminated boards for the top, basic mortise/tenon style base... if that makes a difference)
Thank you for your input :D