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<\/p>\nI have been working on a Mahogany coffee table. This commission started like all of the rest, with a visit to the clients house. I then retreated to my studio to pour over my measurements and begin to design the table. Before too long I was well organized so I went ahead and built a model. Now things began to feel a bit off. It wasn’t the design, it was the scale that seemed off. The clients immediately confirmed my suspicions and commented that the table seemed big. A few days later I brought a cardboard cut out of the giant table to the clients house. Loosing the proportions ended up providing an opportunity to have a dialog with the clients as I cut the cardboard down to size. I enjoyed the process and the clients found it helpful so it will now become a standard part of my presentation! A nice discovery.<\/p>\n
Here we go. The rough Mahogany boards that will form the table top.<\/p>\n
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They then get chopped to the rough size.<\/p>\n
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Off to the jointer to flatten one side of the boards. It takes two passes per board to get them perfectly flat.<\/p>\n
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Next stop is the Planer. The newly flattened side faces down and rides on the precision table. The cutter-head makes the top face as flat and parallel to the jointed face.<\/p>\n
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The processed lumber goes back together and the model comes out for reference.<\/p>\n
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I want each board in the table top to have a wedge shape. This is an integral part of the design so I mark each board and head off to the bandsaw to rough cut the shapes<\/p>\n
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Here is the fan shape. I have run the edges over the Jointer so they are perfectly flat and ready to glue together<\/p>\n
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I will break the table top up into a number of different glue-ups. This will give me an opportunity to shape and detail the table as it evolves.<\/p>\n
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I coat each joint with aliphatic resin glue AKA Yellow woodworking glue.<\/p>\n
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Then the joint gets clamped together. Even pressure will close the joint that was prepared earlier on the Jointer.<\/p>\n
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