Craig D Peltier
02-15-2008, 8:32 PM
Hi, I recently built a 6/4 ash dining room table with two leaves in it. Its 70 and extends to 106. So 2 18 inch leaves.
I matched the 70 inches and then matched the 36 inches for same grain where thye meet. Thsi I guess is just a preference whether client is going to leave the leaves in or out most of time. If in I would of used 10 foot planks.
So what I did was I glued up half table an half table and then same with leaves. The problem I had was when I put them together end to end they didnt quite line up and had to belt sanded to meet flush.
Then on the leaves once you put them in they didint meat flush to main table or to themselves which required more sanding. I had to be careful not to sand very much off of main table since they matched up flush when closed.
So if I were to do it again should I maybe glue it up the full length 70 inches and then crosscut it with skill saw to hopefully have the same slight warp? Should of I made it the entire length and crosscut it 4 times and not end to end matched when the leaves were out?
Obviusly a real flat glue up would help (mine was pretty dang flat but nextime I would pay much closer attention) , I stored the leaves on there ends for maybe 7 days in shop that could hav warped them slightly.
So was there a better way? It was 1.25 thick KD ash.
Thanks
I matched the 70 inches and then matched the 36 inches for same grain where thye meet. Thsi I guess is just a preference whether client is going to leave the leaves in or out most of time. If in I would of used 10 foot planks.
So what I did was I glued up half table an half table and then same with leaves. The problem I had was when I put them together end to end they didnt quite line up and had to belt sanded to meet flush.
Then on the leaves once you put them in they didint meat flush to main table or to themselves which required more sanding. I had to be careful not to sand very much off of main table since they matched up flush when closed.
So if I were to do it again should I maybe glue it up the full length 70 inches and then crosscut it with skill saw to hopefully have the same slight warp? Should of I made it the entire length and crosscut it 4 times and not end to end matched when the leaves were out?
Obviusly a real flat glue up would help (mine was pretty dang flat but nextime I would pay much closer attention) , I stored the leaves on there ends for maybe 7 days in shop that could hav warped them slightly.
So was there a better way? It was 1.25 thick KD ash.
Thanks