Christmas Project

rarefish383 · Dec 15, 2010

I'm gonna make a run at getting a small project done by Christmas for my wife. It's gonna be a pedestal table made with the spalted Malple I cut a month or so ago. I want to make a column with 6 sides. How do I get the correct angles on the boards to make the column? Since there would be 2 angles on each board, and 6 boards, do I divide 360 by 12? Thanks for the help. What the heck, here are a couple of the planks again, Joe.

Timberframed · Dec 15, 2010

Joe, 360 ÷6=60°. Your angle of miter will then be 60÷2=30° of bevel on the saw. To close up any openings in the joint just take a hammer handle or the like and rub along the joint. The scale on your saw may or may not be accurate so measure the angle with a more precise tool. You want it right on.

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Sawyer Rob · Dec 15, 2010

Is the finished table going to be inside your house? I'm not sure that wood will be dry enough to stay straight and nice in a heated house. Did you check it with a moisture meter?

Rob

Daninvan · Dec 15, 2010

Sawyer Rob said:
Is the finished table going to be inside your house? I'm not sure that wood will be dry enough to stay straight and nice in a heated house.

+1

Cut a month ago??? I would be very leery of using it.

(I admire your spirit of starting a Christmas gift ten days before the holiday!)

houtworm · Dec 16, 2010

dont to soon

rarefish383 · Dec 16, 2010

Actually it's going to be a pedastal bird bath for outside. The planks are 2" thick. The column is going to be about 2' tall. I milled the log a couple months ago, but the tree has been dead standing for at least 3 years, to the point some of the wood is kinda punky. I know that it's still pretty wet, even though it was dead standing. To help keep some strain on the wood to stay straight, I'm making 2 star like bolts to secure it top and bottom. I'm taking a 1/2 inch nut and welding a smaller bolt to each flat of the nut. So, it will look like a star. I'm going to make 2 of these. As I put the six pieces of wood together I'll drill a hole six or eight inches from the top and bottom, and thread the boards over them. On the outside, finished surface, I'll use fancy brass castle nuts and some sort of fancy filagree plate to pull the column together and tight. Then I'm going to take a piece of 1/2 inch all thread and run it through the center nuts to hold the top and bottom on. I hope that made sense. It does in my head. One of these days I'll learn hw to do graphics on here, Joe.