Mentioned before that the minister wanted a small side table / foot stool in the lounge. I was planning on using the red cedar and making a small raw edged table but that got stolen and used elsewhere. So the request was make it all matchy matchy, you know like a father and son's bicycle. The original stuff is jarrah and I made it while in WA, two coffee tables and a bookscase thing for videos and a stereo and tv cabinet thing. Plenty of access to DAR jarrah and I had a table saw and router table and a large area to use them. Table saw died while in storage at my mother's house (rusted beyond repair) and the router table is in a box so it was going to be all hand tools and because jarrah is silly money over here it was going to be tassie oak and jarrah stain. This works pretty well as I made another CD bookcase / rack to match the one I did in WA for videos which now stores dvds.
Started out grabbing a couple of offcuts from a furniture place, 800x350x35 and 750x130x45 and 1.8m x65x26. All up this was $40 cash so I reckon that was a good price.
Without a table saw or vertical bandsaw ripping the 130x45 was going to be tricky and in the end I just ripped it with a cordless circular saw by cutting just over half and flipping it over. Somehow I cocked up by cutting either side of the blade and the split was a kerf out but didn't matter because I had plenty left to clean up to get to the magic 60 width. Then I sized the top and a shelf. The legs were to be 60x40 and the top 320 square x19, the shelf about 50mm smaller all round and 19 thick and notched to suit the legs and then the skirt under the top was 60x19. All to match the existing coffee tables. Luckily I have a thicknesser!!!!
After initial cutting:
After thicknessing the bits:
The top:
And... drum roll...
Finished the manufacturing and screwing together today. Test fitted and all good. Now to pull it apart, sand and stain and then reassemble with glue and screws and some varnish over the lot.
tada...
Not bad, not much wastages. I had so much trouble setting up the compound slide saw to get a perfect square cut. Bloody thing. It is a million years old and travelled all over this country. Didn't help that I sheared one of the adjusting bolts which was a bit stuck. Anyway 813.2 cuts later and it was square. And as I was joining 60x40 into a 19 thick top the kreg jig had to be fooled a bit so there were multiple test holes drilled. The kreg screws are just holding it while the glue dries and I wont glue the skirts across the grain and just leave those firm so that the top can move a bit.