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Jochen Schroecker
03-16-2008, 8:32 AM
Hello everybody, I worked on a new table the last weekends, itīs almost done. Top is made out of European Maple, sliding dovetail to keep it straight. Base is American Walnut, stained to a darker tone to avoid the yellow colour it would get untreated.
I will add 10mm stainless steel ends to the legs.
The project was fun, I have to finish the second table yet, legs out of Cherry, same top.
Jochen
Jim Becker
03-16-2008, 9:49 AM
Outstanding work Jochen! I really like that!
Peter Quinn
03-16-2008, 10:40 AM
I particularly like that detail where the legs meet the table top under side profile. Beautiful proportions and weight. Very clever.
Michael Wildt
03-16-2008, 1:05 PM
Awesome work. Almost wish you took orders.

Michael
Ryan Tremaine
03-16-2008, 2:15 PM
Looks great Jochen. The angles on top of the legs look tricky.
Jochen Schroecker
03-16-2008, 2:38 PM
Looks great Jochen. The angles on top of the legs look tricky.
Hello Ryan, thank you!
Actually quite simple. It is only a 30° cut on two pieces, and a 30° cut on the other two parts on the right side of the fence, followed by a normal straight cut.
Bevore that I mitered the pieces on the table saw, used my feeder to avoid step marks and gaps, and was done in no time. Came out very nicely, the PU glue works better in this case and gives you better joints.
After glueing up the legs it occured to me that I never checked the settings, it really is nice to have a machine you can trust on a 30° or 45° marking.
So long,
Jochen
J. Z. Guest
03-16-2008, 3:11 PM
Very nice Jochen. It is good to see folks posting from Europe more lately!
gary Zimmel
03-16-2008, 3:38 PM
Nice looking table Jochen, great wokmanship...
Richard M. Wolfe
03-17-2008, 12:03 AM
Very nice work, Jochen....gross gut!

You said American walnut. I assume you meant wood imported from the US. A couple questions: How much does American walnut cost there? And why use imported walnut? Do you not have walnut or a similar species that would be much cheaper?
Carl Fox
03-17-2008, 12:07 AM
beautiful...
Jochen Schroecker
03-17-2008, 3:20 AM
Very nice work, Jochen....gross gut!

You said American walnut. I assume you meant wood imported from the US. A couple questions: How much does American walnut cost there? And why use imported walnut? Do you not have walnut or a similar species that would be much cheaper?
Hello Richard,
I could have used European (so called "French" Walnut). But the imported Walnut is less expensive - go figure!.
The price for the wood I bought - not much left over - was € 240,- ($ 385,-). I think it was € 2000/mģ.

Jochen
Alan Turner
03-17-2008, 4:35 AM
Very nice work. Clean design and clean joinery. Thanks for posting.

I did a bit of math, and it figured you paid about $3.91 U.S.D. per board foot for the walnut. That seems a good price considering the transportation cost. I was thinking that a metric ton was 1000 kilograms, or 2200 lbs. And I figured the weight of walnut at 2.865 lbs. per board foot (specific gravity at .55).