Jim Becker
08-02-2021, 8:41 PM
Now that the temporary shop is somewhat functional, it was time to get started on my long list of "things" and first up was a companion to an existing black walnut side table for our family/bird room. I made the first one a number of years ago for the media/family room at the old property and while one was fine there, we need two at the new place to balance the sofa. The design is "Shaker-ish" and largely based on Thos Moser's side tables that I've made a number of over the years. This one is a little taller with a slightly stretched apron for proportion that I found to be pleasing. Here's the one that was previously built:
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When I made the previous table, there was a second top from the same panel glue-up. It's been "hanging out" just waiting for me to make another table. :) So I grabbed it and a few boards from my storage unit a few miles up the road and it was time to get started by laying out the approximations for the aprons on a nice board from the stash. (All of this walnut was milled off our old property and air dried by me, so it's "special" in that regard)
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Before heading to the J/P to get a straight edge, I lopped off what was most certainly waste material at my "table saw"....hey, it's a table with holes and a saw. Table saw, right? :D
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The board I used was previously surfaced "good enough" for the purpose here, so processing was pretty much edge work. In my previous setup, these steps would have been done on the sliding table saw, but given that's not in the picture at the moment, some good old fashioned edge jointing got a good reference edge to work with.
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The board was then ripped proud of final dimension on the bandsaw. It went back to the jointer to clean up the edge and fortunately, both edges were actually parallel. If that had not been the case, I would have used the track saw to deal with it.
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Aprons were cut to length back at that "Table saw" using a stop on the fence to get all four exactly the same length.
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I processed the material similarly for the leg stock...flattened and edged at the J/P, ripped at the bandsaw and then processed further by thicknessing square. On the bench, the leg blanks wer then marked for length. Note I made five legs...I wasn't sure about a defect in one piece, so I hedged on it. This was a good decision. While the one I did have question about worked out fine, another one, for some strange reason, had some massive tearout when I started working the tapers with a hand plane later on. So that fifth leg became one of the four.
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After trimming the leg blanks to the exact same lengths, they were marked up for cutting the double tapers which was handled at the bandsaw. I would normally do this with a table jig on a table saw (including a slider), but that not being available to me, it was cut close to the line with the machine and then head to the bench.
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When I made the previous table, there was a second top from the same panel glue-up. It's been "hanging out" just waiting for me to make another table. :) So I grabbed it and a few boards from my storage unit a few miles up the road and it was time to get started by laying out the approximations for the aprons on a nice board from the stash. (All of this walnut was milled off our old property and air dried by me, so it's "special" in that regard)
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Before heading to the J/P to get a straight edge, I lopped off what was most certainly waste material at my "table saw"....hey, it's a table with holes and a saw. Table saw, right? :D
462275
The board I used was previously surfaced "good enough" for the purpose here, so processing was pretty much edge work. In my previous setup, these steps would have been done on the sliding table saw, but given that's not in the picture at the moment, some good old fashioned edge jointing got a good reference edge to work with.
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The board was then ripped proud of final dimension on the bandsaw. It went back to the jointer to clean up the edge and fortunately, both edges were actually parallel. If that had not been the case, I would have used the track saw to deal with it.
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Aprons were cut to length back at that "Table saw" using a stop on the fence to get all four exactly the same length.
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I processed the material similarly for the leg stock...flattened and edged at the J/P, ripped at the bandsaw and then processed further by thicknessing square. On the bench, the leg blanks wer then marked for length. Note I made five legs...I wasn't sure about a defect in one piece, so I hedged on it. This was a good decision. While the one I did have question about worked out fine, another one, for some strange reason, had some massive tearout when I started working the tapers with a hand plane later on. So that fifth leg became one of the four.
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After trimming the leg blanks to the exact same lengths, they were marked up for cutting the double tapers which was handled at the bandsaw. I would normally do this with a table jig on a table saw (including a slider), but that not being available to me, it was cut close to the line with the machine and then head to the bench.
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