Pictures Wanted: Tables!

[mstang1988]

I am planning to make my fiance a table and possibly a china hutch for her wedding present (she really wants me to make her a table for some reason) and want some ideas of tables that are out there, especially from the millers that has created one from start to finish! I was initially looking for something sort of rustic but classy at the same time. Here is my initial thoughts.

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For those of you that have built them, how hard was it? I have some basic wood working skills and have built a chess board before so I'm not totally incompetent. I know I'll need to get access to a planer and a jointer to get good glue joints between the boards.

 

[Yooperforeman]

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Here you go.
Ash and hard Maple,laminated with biscuits,sanded and then finished with poly.Sorrry for the photos,bright sun that day.View attachment 246059View attachment 246059

 

[mikeb1079]

here's one i made for my brother, similar to your pic but w/o the bread board ends. black walnut i milled with my old chainsaw mill. was it hard? no. time consuming? yes. you can do it, but like you said you'll need access to a planer, jointer, table saw, and long clamps.

 

[mstang1988]

here's one i made for my brother, similar to your pic but w/o the bread board ends. black walnut i milled with my old chainsaw mill. was it hard? no. time consuming? yes. you can do it, but like you said you'll need access to a planer, jointer, table saw, and long clamps.

Do you have an estimate of the time?

 

[MGoodwin]

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The picture of the table is before I finished it. The bench shows what it looked like in the end. Finished with tung oil, made of alder. The table it three feet wide (three one footers) with bread board ends. Was pretty happy with how it turned out, being my first table. Definitely took some time as all my projects are one-offs.

 

[mstang1988]

The picture of the table is before I finished it. The bench shows what it looked like in the end. Finished with tung oil, made of alder. The table it three feet wide (three one footers) with bread board ends. Was pretty happy with how it turned out, being my first table. Definitely took some time as all my projects are one-offs.

I love the simplicity of it. 6/4?


THanks everybody that's supplied pictures!

 

[MGoodwin]

By 6/4 do you mean the dimensions? If so its actually 5x3. I find that it sits 4 very comfortably, and 6 slightly cozy. The top is about an inch thick.

 

[mstang1988]

By 6/4 do you mean the dimensions? If so its actually 5x3. I find that it sits 4 very comfortably, and 6 slightly cozy. The top is about an inch thick.

6/4 would be the thickness. Measured as 6, 1/4" of an inch or 1.5".

 

[Cowboy Billy]

Here's a white cedar table and chairs my friend Gary built. The base is a hollow cedar stump. And I gave him the cedar posts for the chairs from trees knocked down from building trails on my property. He cut his own lumber on his wood mizer.

After I saw how nice it turned out I decided to play around some and build a shelf with white cedar. I used slabs for the ends and when I cut the boards I only cut three sides. And peeled the bark off and used the live edge for the face of the shelf.

Then I made a shelf out of a 1/4 round log and one out of a slab.

Billy

 

[qweesdraw]

Here's a white cedar table and chairs my friend Gary built. The base is a hollow cedar stump. And I gave him the cedar posts for the chairs from trees knocked down from building trails on my property. He cut his own lumber on his wood mizer.

After I saw how nice it turned out I decided to play around some and build a shelf with white cedar. I used slabs for the ends and when I cut the boards I only cut three sides. And peeled the bark off and used the live edge for the face of the shelf.

Then I made a shelf out of a 1/4 round log and one out of a slab.

Billy

AWESOME Billy!

 

[Dad2FourWI]

@Cowboy Billy, how did your friend cut the bottom of the cedar stump so nice and flat??? With those roots, that is a pretty good span!!! Great pics and I like the shelves - great ideas!