Hall Table Finished

[Rob Luter]

I've been working on this for a while now. It still needs a rubdown with BriWax but the light was good for pics. QSWO and RSWO with tons of flake and figure. M & T Construction. The finish is reddish brown dye, then dark walnut stain, then garnet shellac (The Homestead Finishing Mission Method).



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[Joe Leigh]

Outstanding....the figure in the front legs is spectacular!
Great job.

[John Keeton]

Rob, very, very nice work! While I have both of the recipes from Jeff saved in my files, I have never used either. I certainly like the looks of the one you have used, and I love the straightforward style of the hall table. It looks very well situated, as well.

[Wayne Sparkman]

Beautiful work, and true to the style.

[Prashun Patel]

Nice legs! That's a great piece. I love the finish.

[John Thompson]

Excellent piece Rob. That is an extremely nice finish you provided for it also. I had wondered about how to get a reddish caste to a few pieces I have done so.. thanks for revealing your schedule as that definitely has the reddish caste. Looks very nice in your home with surroundings and that hard-wood floor is a compliment.

While I am at it.. very nice job on the pictures taken outside as the photo thing is an extremely weak spot for me even though I am getting a bit better with others advice.

Well done... indeed, well done!

[Rob Luter]

Thanks to all for the kind words. Ive done a number of Mission/Arts and Crafts pieces but this is the first time I've used the dye + stain process promoted by Jeff Jewitt and Homestead Finishing. I have to say I'm a believer in this finishing process.

(link: http://www.homesteadfinishingproducts.com/pdf/mission_oak_rev3-2009.pdf)

It looked really good until I applied the shellac, then it looked WOW! The grain and flake really pops and the dye really warms it up. The outdoor pictures in bright sunshine don't really show the finish accurately. In reality it's a fairly dark warm brown and is looks closer to what's depicted in the interior shot.

[glenn bradley]

Very nice. I love the clean elegant design.

[gary Zimmel]

Very nice work on the hall table Rob.

Great fleck on that QSWO!

[Walt Caza]

Congrats Rob,
All I can say is your table feels old.
Which is really saying everything.

Well executed, and most appealing colour I have seen for fresh Craftsman style.
You may have spurred me to try my hand at JJ's Homestead finish schedule.

May I ask...
What approach did you use to build your legs?

Very handsome design. Carries heft but plenty airy.
Pleasing to my eye both in sunshine and indoors.
Good show,
Thanks for the peek,
Walt

ps What are you building next?
I can't wait...

[Shawn Pixley]

Great job! Your piece is almost a perfect match for my original book / display case.

[Rob Luter]

Congrats Rob,

May I ask...
What approach did you use to build your legs?



Hi Walt,

The legs are just QSWO. I'd like to boast about quadralinear construction and all that, but I'm not that skilled. I just found some wood with great flake on the QS sides and "rift like" straight grain on the flat sawn sides. Flake is forward on the front legs and to the sides on the back legs. The exposed tenons and corbels on the sides of the front legs offer enough interest so the lack of flake doesn't really matter. I looked long and hard for some rift sawn with the grain at 45 degrees but had no luck. I rolled the dice on the arrangement I went with and it came out OK.

BTW - I got your PM. Let me clean up the plans and I'll send them to you. Just PM your email. For that matter I can just post the .pdf here.

- Rob

[Von Bickley]

Rob,

You nailed that one.......

Beautiful wood, Great style and Great craftsmanship........

[Mark Valsi]

Very nice job !!

you got the proportions exact, and the craftsmanship shows.

I really like the finish too !!! good job !!!

[John Thompson]

Rob... try the quad-linear sometime when you get some spare time if that's possible. Really not that hard once you get the hang of it as hand cut DT's are. I use poplar or maple cores on my quad-linears so you not only get fleck on all sides but.. save a bit of QS to boot.

And yep.. a piece in sun-light will most definitely look darker inside where there are more shadows and less light with it being of a totally different source.

I like both the outside and inside shades of color depicted by both the sun and interior lighting of your table BTW... so for me the shade is irrelevant to the end result.

Again.. excellent job!

[Jim Becker]

Really beautiful, Rob!

[Rob Luter]

A number have asked and I'm happy to share. See attached.

- Rob

[Ken Werner]

Rob, wonderful piece, great execution. I like the photography with fallen leaves.

[Walt Caza]

Thanks Rob!
I was one of the Creekers interested in your hall table design.
It really struck me as handsome and felt authentic.

Kind and generous of you to share your plan.

I'm adding it to my hope-to-build list.
I'd be proud to make one half as nice as yours!
The A&C style has really grown on my wife.
This would make a terrific gift for her.

good show,
and good sharing,
thanks,
Walt

ps When I build one... I'll share a peek, with the Creek

[Neal Clayton]

your table looks exactly like my living room floor rob. from stripping other things around the house finished that way, i suspect they used pine tar mixed up with some sort of oil as a stain, and then the garnet shellac, and then a wax.

so yea i think yours would pass for a 102 year old finish too. looks pretty authentic to me.

[Yitah Wu]

Very nice

Through tenons on lower part of legs is a very nice touch.

[Walt Caza]

Hello Again Rob,
Thanks for your excellent pdf file of your table plans.
In looking them over, I see that you gave us the side distance between legs, but not the front distance between legs.

Taking a guess... let's see if I can come close...

I assume your legs were 8/4" stock, however they cleaned up?
Such as maybe 1.75" or as large as possible, and squared by 31" high.

Corbels out of 2.5" by 11" block, minus the 3/8" tenon, leaves 2.125" wide.

Your elevation view suggests that the front legs are spaced as wide as
the 36" back. (outer leg to outer leg)

The shelf and stringers, aka stretchers, are the same length between legs.

You give your stringers as 34.5" overall, including tenons on each end.
Maybe 1" tenons, max length to meet the other tenons inside the leg.
Looks like you mitered them where they meet. Tricky stuff!

I'd guess the table top extends past the corbel by nearly an inch or so...
(looks around the same amount as the thickness of the top)

So, I'd hazard a guess to say the distance between the front legs would be about 32.5" ?

In summary, beneath the 42" long top:
overhang +corbel +leg +shelf +leg +corbel +overhang

my math in fractions:
7/8" + 2 1/8" + 1 3/4" + 32 1/2" + 1 3/4" + 2 1/8" + 7/8" = 42"

or decimal (more calculator friendly):
.875 + 2.125 + 1.75 + 32.5 + 1.75 + 2.125 + .875 = 42"

Usually, they give a dimension for the length of a part between the tenon shoulders. You did not mention the size of your legs.
If we know the leg size, we can deduce the stringer length between shoulders.

It seems I've been doing plenty of thinking about your hall table...
it obviously left a strong impression! Nice work!
They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery...

How did I do?
Thanks again,
Walt

ps your proportions are sooo balanced and pleasing...
I'd be afraid to alter them too far, and throw off the great appearance of your design!

[Rob Luter]

Hello Again Rob,
Thanks for your excellent pdf file of your table plans.
In looking them over, I see that you gave us the side distance between legs, but not the front distance between legs...........

Hi Walt,

I notice there are a few dim's missing on the .pdf version. I drew this up in AutoCad and just scaled the native file if I needed to when I was building the piece. I think you're pretty close on your approximations, but let me put a tape on the finished product and I'll update the plans tomorrow.

- Rob

[Rob Luter]

To all,

I've added some dimensions as Walt requested, and updated a few others. Call them all "nominal" as I wasn't following the plan real close. The sketch was originally dimensioned so I could calculate stock requirements and when I built it I just followed a "stream of Consciousness" approach, fitting everything together as required. All mortises are centered and tenons on the shelf and ends have a shoulder all around to hide sins (I need all the help I can get :o). The stringers (actually aprons) on top are mitered as Walt suggested, and haunched into the top of the legs. The corbels are just glued into slots in the legs. The only fasteners in the piece are three screws that hold the back into the top. I wanted that to be removable. It was pretty solid even before the glue-up so I think it should last long enough for any future grandkids (God willing) to fight over it. :D

- Rob

[lou sansone]

great looking table. love the color of the oak
keep up the great work

lou

[Walt Caza]

Thank you Rob,
for taking the time and giving so generously of your fine design.

They say, that if you ask a great cook for their recipe...
that they always leave a little something out.
Time has taught me that a recipe is merely a list of ingredients.
There is alot more going on to create great food.
Finesse is everything. The devil is in the details. (some say God is too)

I thought maybe Rob was holding back a little something in his plans.
Very generous to share the broadstrokes with the vast internet,
who could ask anything more?

Turns out he gave and then gave again. Fully and completely.
He was not holding back... rather, just flying loose and easy with his table build.
The way so many of us build for the fun of it, in our hobby workshops.

I'd have completely understood if Rob did choose to hold a little back.
He has produced a handsome design and built it well.
He boiled down boatloads of choices into his original design.
Up to him, whatever he may choose to do with it...
and he chose to share every last number.

I'm glad he's gonna let me build a similar table for my wife, and our home.
We share an appreciation for the style and the oak.
I can't wait for a chance to make sawdust fly!
be well,
Walt

ps oh ya, someday someone will be fighting over Rob's table!
what a fabulous aspect of our hobby...

[Jack Camillo]

Stunning work, and very generous of you to offer the plan. Not sure many will be able to execute the plan as beautifully as you have. Thanks.

[Sam Layton]

Rob, your hall table looks outstanding. The finish turned out great as well.

Sam

[Matt Winterowd]

Amazing table, Rob! Beautiful design and execution! I will definitely take some inspiration from this for the console I've been brainstorming on.

[Rob Luter]

Not sure many will be able to execute the plan as beautifully as you have.

Trust me, compared to many on this forum, I'm a hack. I'm sure anyone that builds this will do at least as well as I did.

Thanks again to all for the kind words. The positive feedback really means a lot. I've only been back in the hobby for a couple years now and the quality of work I see on this forum gives me something to shoot for.

- Rob