Dennis Peacock
11-25-2019, 7:42 AM
25 Nov 2019
Greetings,
It's been a crazy week at the day job and in the woodshop. Making some good progress on the dining table project.
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The base is 106" long and stands 27.5" tall. The tabletop will be 42" wide by 144" long and will be 1.5" thick (all white oak). Tonight I begin the process of fitting all the boards for the tabletop. My question is this....what clear coat should I put on this table? I've always used a marine spar varnish but I've also used a polyurethane finish made for hardwood floors. What do cabinet makers or furniture makers use for table tops?
I have my CNC setup now and I've gotten most of the dust collection pieces together. I'm nervous about using it for the first time because I don't have the spoil board done, I don't have clamps. I guess I'm just nervous about it because "I don't know" what to expect or how to go about telling the machine what I need done. Maybe I'm only complicating things because I'm over-thinking it. :) I only have Carbide Create to design and generate g-code with and it's very limited. I'm quickly finding out that I need to get VCarve to design with but then I'll need to learn how to tie it to carbide motion to send the g-code to the machine.
I guess I'm saying that I'm really excited about all this but I'm also wanting it to work well for me and I need to learn how to do just that. :)
That's it for me, so what did YOU do this past week?
Best of weeks to you all.
Greetings,
It's been a crazy week at the day job and in the woodshop. Making some good progress on the dining table project.
420283
The base is 106" long and stands 27.5" tall. The tabletop will be 42" wide by 144" long and will be 1.5" thick (all white oak). Tonight I begin the process of fitting all the boards for the tabletop. My question is this....what clear coat should I put on this table? I've always used a marine spar varnish but I've also used a polyurethane finish made for hardwood floors. What do cabinet makers or furniture makers use for table tops?
I have my CNC setup now and I've gotten most of the dust collection pieces together. I'm nervous about using it for the first time because I don't have the spoil board done, I don't have clamps. I guess I'm just nervous about it because "I don't know" what to expect or how to go about telling the machine what I need done. Maybe I'm only complicating things because I'm over-thinking it. :) I only have Carbide Create to design and generate g-code with and it's very limited. I'm quickly finding out that I need to get VCarve to design with but then I'll need to learn how to tie it to carbide motion to send the g-code to the machine.
I guess I'm saying that I'm really excited about all this but I'm also wanting it to work well for me and I need to learn how to do just that. :)
That's it for me, so what did YOU do this past week?
Best of weeks to you all.