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Hello Julie,
thanks for the comments, yes apart from the legs it is all a pallet dismantled and rebuilt.
Take a look at my projects, PT Table there are more assembly pictures there.
Regards
Robert Brennan
How lovely! And it was just a pallet?!
Thanks Janet,
Its comments like yours make the job more rewarding, and add to interesting reading on the Kreg Site.
I took particular care in positioning the features, just goes to show people do notice !
I love the grain in the wood. The table looks very good.
Thanks, wood can be an interesting medium... just like our wives ha ha, bless their heart ;-)
Pierre,
Yes you are correct, alternating the grain a most important consideration, which I did it with out even think then forgot to mention it.
Mind you as you found out it doesn't always work.
Regards
Robert
Robert
I might add to alternated the cup of the grain of the wood (as seen fromt eh end). I've had a problem before with tortional movement (twist along the length) and I had the wood in the shop for weeks. !! wood is wood huh? I also had cross-braced it beneath. Next time, I will check the grain of the wood very carefully, and also, the cut. Regards, PV
Hello Pierre,
Thanks for the nice comments,
Cross timber movement is a problem with the humidity hence moisture content of timber changing.
So here is some information you may wish to tell your friend about.
The first and most important step is to normalise the timber so the Moisture Content Percent (MCP) is equal to the ambient conditions, however as we know the seasons change so does the timber MCP
The bigger the table top the more the more risk is of it happening and also in turn producing less then satisfied customers.
There a few ways to reduce the effects of it happening when you work with wood.
1. Allow for expansion and contraction, easier said than done in furniture especially table tops.
2. If you are doing veneer work, veneer both sides,
3. If you apply a finish, again apply the finish to both sides.
4. Build the surface using cross overlapped timber encompassing the center
5. Use cross bracing on the underside, if possible.
All methods will only reduce the effect by attempting to cancel it out, but it cannot be prevented completely.
But if you are fore warned you are fore armed.
Regards
Robert Brennan
now that is a nice surface. Someone complained about movement in his table top; he should ask you about advice
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