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.