I was at an Apple store--when I realized that the tables are essentially split top fake Roubo.
I'm not sure about the joinery, but I couldn't get the table to rack.
Then, I realized that I'm probably too neander.
You?
I was at an Apple store--when I realized that the tables are essentially split top fake Roubo.
I'm not sure about the joinery, but I couldn't get the table to rack.
Then, I realized that I'm probably too neander.
You?
Joinery technique is always on my list of things to check when wandering through antique stores and other places where furniture is gathered.
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
When you break down and decide to use a router to save time, but think, I'll still get to hand chisel the corners!
When you cut up a tree with a handsaw while the other folks were waiting for the guy with the chainsaw to show up.
I have both electric and gasoline chain saws. I also have 13 handsaws. I normally cut up a tree or cut off a branch with the electric saw.
I run the fuel out of the gas saws so they will start after being in the shed for long periods of time.
Actually I have two gas saws.
I am an old dog, in good health, I walk a mile every morning all year long. When you live in Galveston County Texas, you can do that. One of my
sons lives in Connecticut and he can't walk in the dead of winter.
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I like to limb trees with an axe... I am amazed how slow a saw is compared to an axe... I was out clearing out storm felled trees at the HOA boat ramp with the other HOA guys... They all had their power saws and I had my axe.. They teased the heck out of me for being a caveman with my axe vs their super duper Stihl and Husky saws.. I limbed 2 trees by the time they got halfway through limbing their first one...
... you don't know the power has gone out until you make a coffee.
... "hearing protection" means you are out of earshot of the wife.
... you have more sharpening stones than power tools.
... someone says 'Hey, look at that plane" and you don't immediately look up.
Pretty sure they’re Parson’s tables.
Bumbling forward into the unknown.
When I was interested in all things Apple in junior high I found the company that made the tables; Fetzer woodworking. I think Apple may have changed makers or something, just something I heard haven’t confirmed. They were said to be solid maple but the store closest to me had very very very neatly veneered ones. I used to inspect the tables and get disappointed since I really detested veneered stuff at the time, veneer to me was IKEA stuff aka chipboard that the kid me couldn’t make things with (still haven’t made anything with chipboard). Perhaps the ones elsewhere like in the US are solid maple, the articles written about the stores and information available were all American. Only some wear showed seams and clues. I was at the Genius Bar today and had forgotten this and was just appreciating the thick solid maple endgrain shown in the joinery and then looking along the bar edge spotted a gap where the veneer had opened up. Closer inspection showed that the end grain was a very well done veneer. I use to dream of working for Apple and had a design for the tables where the split top had a clear resin or glass core (in the place of a larger split top slot) with an Apple logo floating dead smack in the middle of the resin. The logo would need to glow or illuminate without any visible wires or connection to anything; even underneath the logo. Fast forward 8 years and resin cast tables are all the rage; absolutely dominating social media — and yet now I would make a simple oil and wax finished table. Maybe French polish if I wanted something more loud; haven’t kicked that high gloss habit yet. A hand rubbed varnish for durability if needed. Of course I would handplane finish before applying finish. 8 years ago I couldn’t have imagined that I would end up with only a drill press that gets turned on once a month to see if it’s alive and a bench grinder as my only power tools. I might have to go make another belt sander jig for the drill press for metalworking now. One day i’ll save up for a few things to break down stock faster. Man this thread brought up some good memories. Though now I feel old and very underachieving now.
Solid wood doesn’t perform well as a parsons table, there is no way to batten it and no amount if battening that will have a real effect on it.
4” thick maple tables are completely impractical for the scale of that operation, unless you can build in the cost of replacing 1/2 of them.
Bumbling forward into the unknown.
Yeah I later had a small voice in the back of my mind telling me all the impracticalities when I learned about wood movement. Begrudgingly accepted the roles that composites and plywood have. Still irked me that people claimed these were solid wood.
...when you are part of the minority that never talk about dust collection system, actually have no idea when people writes DC in these forums (Direct Current?)
...when you cannot understand the excitement most people has when talking about either "Festool" or "Sawstop"
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