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Man you've got a lot of faceplates!
Today I finally decided to start this table for a friend. It's not an end table but for the life of can't remember the name, but the one that most people have in front of their couch. Anyway, it's 24x36 made of Palo Verde. I have to make it in either 2 or possibly 3 pieces because of the cracks, punk and other stuff our desert woods are noted for.
Before finishing this post, I decided I would go outside and saw three pieces to make the 24" width needed for the width. The length can be cut after the top is glued together. All the other wood needed for legs and under top border thing (crs is really setting in) can't remember what it's called,( 1 hour later, I remembered. It's an apron.) will be cut after the top is complete. Anyway, went outside and it was just starting to rain. Crap, my table saw, miter saw and planer are all uncovered and sitting in the rain. It took me about 3 minutes to cover it all, then it quit raining. I looked up and saw more blue sky with patches of grey sky, especially the grey positioned over my house. Like I said, after I got everything covered, it quit raining. I don't think it rained more than 7-8 minutes, but just enough to really waste some commercial plywood or lumber that COULD have been sitting out there. But, l'm lucky as I decided to put that last bit of Hickory job away until I feel like starting it again.
This what I saw on my saw.
I decided not to cover the saw as the top would just get real rusty, so left it uncovered . This is what the cover on the miter saw looks like in an emergency, but I hope it worked. Notice the shadow on the ground of my saw and some of thar wood stacked on the floor. It was there the whole time it was raining.
This is what my saw looks like when not in use or if the weather looks bad.
Anyway, on to the Palo Verde. I have 6 slabs ranging from 2" thick to 10 to 26" across x 38-42" long. The table I'm going to build is 24" wide, so all I'm going to need is 3 pieces at 8" wide that will be good at each end. It looks like that's not an issue. The top will be 1 1/4 inches thick. I never had to cut wood like this in my 47 years of being in the WW business. My biggest problem was the wood wasn't flat and was causing blade stoppage, but knowing how to use a saw made a lot of difference. I managed to cut 4 of the slabs with a straight side, jointed it and then cut down to a smaller width that will allow me to plane it.
The two top pieces have been planned, but the bottom one weren't done yet. After thing dry up, I'll get back out and finish this.
These are the cutoffs from the slabs. I'm going to cut the at 2x2s and 7/8 squares by pen blank lengths, both short and long. The 2x2s would work as bottle stoppers, but they will be sized to the longest I can get, about 10-12". There is color on 90% of them, but won't really know until done. Tomorrow sometime.
I gotta go back out, uncover my saw, and cut the other pieces of Palo Verde so I can get the pieces glued up.
Not gonna do it as another grey cloud surrounded by blue sky is hovering over my house, and the cover on my saw looks like it got some more rain from the time I started this post................ Nubs
Before finishing this post, I decided I would go outside and saw three pieces to make the 24" width needed for the width. The length can be cut after the top is glued together. All the other wood needed for legs and under top border thing (crs is really setting in) can't remember what it's called,( 1 hour later, I remembered. It's an apron.) will be cut after the top is complete. Anyway, went outside and it was just starting to rain. Crap, my table saw, miter saw and planer are all uncovered and sitting in the rain. It took me about 3 minutes to cover it all, then it quit raining. I looked up and saw more blue sky with patches of grey sky, especially the grey positioned over my house. Like I said, after I got everything covered, it quit raining. I don't think it rained more than 7-8 minutes, but just enough to really waste some commercial plywood or lumber that COULD have been sitting out there. But, l'm lucky as I decided to put that last bit of Hickory job away until I feel like starting it again.
This what I saw on my saw.
I decided not to cover the saw as the top would just get real rusty, so left it uncovered . This is what the cover on the miter saw looks like in an emergency, but I hope it worked. Notice the shadow on the ground of my saw and some of thar wood stacked on the floor. It was there the whole time it was raining.
This is what my saw looks like when not in use or if the weather looks bad.
Anyway, on to the Palo Verde. I have 6 slabs ranging from 2" thick to 10 to 26" across x 38-42" long. The table I'm going to build is 24" wide, so all I'm going to need is 3 pieces at 8" wide that will be good at each end. It looks like that's not an issue. The top will be 1 1/4 inches thick. I never had to cut wood like this in my 47 years of being in the WW business. My biggest problem was the wood wasn't flat and was causing blade stoppage, but knowing how to use a saw made a lot of difference. I managed to cut 4 of the slabs with a straight side, jointed it and then cut down to a smaller width that will allow me to plane it.
The two top pieces have been planned, but the bottom one weren't done yet. After thing dry up, I'll get back out and finish this.
These are the cutoffs from the slabs. I'm going to cut the at 2x2s and 7/8 squares by pen blank lengths, both short and long. The 2x2s would work as bottle stoppers, but they will be sized to the longest I can get, about 10-12". There is color on 90% of them, but won't really know until done. Tomorrow sometime.
I gotta go back out, uncover my saw, and cut the other pieces of Palo Verde so I can get the pieces glued up.
Not gonna do it as another grey cloud surrounded by blue sky is hovering over my house, and the cover on my saw looks like it got some more rain from the time I started this post................ Nubs
Started doing it this way many years ago and continue to refine the process, faceplates are by far the most efficient way to do this type of production work.
Massive "Coffee" table! Gonna love this one! Chuck
I think “sofa” table…..but not sure Chuck.
"Coffee table". Man, how did I forget that's what it was. At least I finally remembered the Apron. ........... Nubs
Should make a beautiful coffee table. I think I have one slice of PV you included with that first box and haven't figured out how best to use it yet.
You will figure it out and it will be attractive for a piece of crap wood. People here who have worked PV just don't like it and won't touch it again. It doesn't even burn good. It usually ends up rotting away. ............ Nubs
PV looks like if it were stabilized, it might make some pretty knife scales in certain sections anyway. As with a lot of woods, the figure isn't consistent throughout the tree but where there is figure with the color changes, it looks pretty awesome.
Today, I removed the cover from my saw. I sanded the rust off one side to show what it looked like.
Then I proceeded to complete what I wanted to do yesterday. I did cut the PV planks to length, but left them wide as later today I'll take them to my friend and let him/her select which ones they want. I believe I'll have to go with 4 6" wide instead of the three 8" wide boards.
I then proceeded to cut the scraps into pen blanks. In this picture, there are 70 pieces and most are 13/16" square, with a few at 3/4". Ninety eight per cent are colored. Only 2% are plain. I think the one on the lower right are all well over 12" and the 2 shortest near the throat plate are over 6" long. There is a bunch, well over 200 regular pen blanks at 6" long.
Here the pieces I will cut for bottle stoppers. I know they are almost square at 2", but don't know how long they are.
When I always post pictures, I go to the last one at the bottom right, click enter, and my cursor will move the left bottom of the last picture, and wait for me to start typing or enter another picture. Today it's not happening.
Well, it worked because I screwed up. Clicked Preview, after viewing, I clicked on the back button and I lost the page I was on. Had to go back to this forum and scrolled down and was grateful my post hadn't fled the scene. I'll more than likely have this problem again. It happened yesterday and it took well over an hour to post it.
............ Nubs
Then I proceeded to complete what I wanted to do yesterday. I did cut the PV planks to length, but left them wide as later today I'll take them to my friend and let him/her select which ones they want. I believe I'll have to go with 4 6" wide instead of the three 8" wide boards.
I then proceeded to cut the scraps into pen blanks. In this picture, there are 70 pieces and most are 13/16" square, with a few at 3/4". Ninety eight per cent are colored. Only 2% are plain. I think the one on the lower right are all well over 12" and the 2 shortest near the throat plate are over 6" long. There is a bunch, well over 200 regular pen blanks at 6" long.
Here the pieces I will cut for bottle stoppers. I know they are almost square at 2", but don't know how long they are.
When I always post pictures, I go to the last one at the bottom right, click enter, and my cursor will move the left bottom of the last picture, and wait for me to start typing or enter another picture. Today it's not happening.
Well, it worked because I screwed up. Clicked Preview, after viewing, I clicked on the back button and I lost the page I was on. Had to go back to this forum and scrolled down and was grateful my post hadn't fled the scene. I'll more than likely have this problem again. It happened yesterday and it took well over an hour to post it.
............ Nubs