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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Andyp » 26 Jun 2022, 12:48

Mike G wrote:Blimey, Andy, that's a lot of buttons. Are you expecting a fierce wrestling match between the legs and the top?


Oh is it? Having never done this before I went for the over engineered approach :) . Perhaps I got carried away with my new favourite tool, the biscuit jointer on loan from Bob 9F. I made the buttons en masse as well.

Just to show how far my woodworking skills have progressed. Here is the table, partially seen earlier in this thread, that I made at least 35 years ago. Legs attached to rails using T bolts (bed bolts) . Plastic corners used to attached the top. :oops:

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In some ways woodworking was so much easier back then. I just had an idea and ran with it. Nowadays I spend longer perusing the web related to the project then I do actually making anything. And I still get it wrong. :o .
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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Andyp » 30 Jun 2022, 15:45

Me and the router don’t get along too well. Too much can go too wrong very fast so I was mightily relieved when I managed to round over the table top edges without incident. Just a light sanding required now and I can stain.

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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Woodbloke » 30 Jun 2022, 16:07

Andyp wrote:Me and the router don’t get along too well. Too much can go too wrong very fast so I was mightily relieved when I managed to round over the table top edges without incident. Just a light sanding required now and I can stain.


I can understand your worries with the router, but setting the machine up is the important bit and doing plenty of test runs to check that the set-up is spot on. A 'round over' on an edge is relatively easy, other stuff like making thru' mortices in thin rails (needed for the next project) are a lot more tricksier and require some very careful thought before taking the machine to the wood - Rob
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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Andyp » 30 Jun 2022, 16:12

Indeed Rob, took me longer to re-familiarise myself with the tool, set it up and run tests cuts on both soft and hard wood than to do the actual job. Would have taken me even longer to fettle the #405 for this job though.
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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Malc2098 » 30 Jun 2022, 16:31

That top is looking nice. I bat that roundover is tactile.
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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Andyp » 04 Jul 2022, 17:58

Disaster, damn and blast and every expletive you can think of. Glue up, knocking it together, the top part of one of the Vs came adrift. Too disgusted with myself to take pictures. A clean break so have glued it back , but pulling everything else apart has left a right mess of the dowels.
Really not sure if it is recoverable.
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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby AndyT » 04 Jul 2022, 18:17

Andyp wrote:Disaster, damn and blast and every expletive you can think of. Glue up, knocking it together, the top part of one of the Vs came adrift. Too disgusted with myself to take pictures. A clean break so have glued it back , but pulling everything else apart has left a right mess of the dowels.
Really not sure if it is recoverable.
Time for a drink.


Leave it without looking at it for 24 hours. Somewhere in the background another bit of your brain will come up with a way of recovering it sensibly.
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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Malc2098 » 04 Jul 2022, 18:28

AndyT wrote:
Andyp wrote:Disaster, damn and blast and every expletive you can think of. Glue up, knocking it together, the top part of one of the Vs came adrift. Too disgusted with myself to take pictures. A clean break so have glued it back , but pulling everything else apart has left a right mess of the dowels.
Really not sure if it is recoverable.
Time for a drink.


Leave it without looking at it for 24 hours. Somewhere in the background another bit of your brain will come up with a way of recovering it sensibly.


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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Woodbloke » 04 Jul 2022, 19:14

Malc2098 wrote:
AndyT wrote:
Andyp wrote:Disaster, damn and blast and every expletive you can think of. Glue up, knocking it together, the top part of one of the Vs came adrift. Too disgusted with myself to take pictures. A clean break so have glued it back , but pulling everything else apart has left a right mess of the dowels.
Really not sure if it is recoverable.
Time for a drink.


Leave it without looking at it for 24 hours. Somewhere in the background another bit of your brain will come up with a way of recovering it sensibly.


:text-+1:


:text-+1: ...and here also. Leave it alone for a goodly time and return to it in the cold light of day. It will be recoverable; you've just got work out how. It's far too good a project to consign to the bandsaw (from one who knows about these things :eusa-whistle: ) - Rob
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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Andyp » 05 Jul 2022, 07:24

Woke up at various times last night thinking about it.
I did glue the busted bit back on, held together with sticky tape, impossible to clamp. Out all morning and really not looking forward to going into the workshop this afternoon. I did check the one piece of oak I have spare and I might be able to make a while new leg end but the effort involved……..

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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Woodbloke » 05 Jul 2022, 08:03

Andyp wrote:Woke up at various times last night thinking about it.
I did glue the busted bit back on, held together with sticky tape, impossible to clamp.


Here's an idea to try Andy, for things that really difficult to clamp. Go to your local bike shop and beg, borrow or steal an old cycle inner tube and then slice it up into long lengths around 12-15mm wide. Use it to wrap around said tricky clamping project, gradually increasing the tension as you pull and stretch the rubber around the job, wrapping in various directions according to where the pressure needs to be applied.

The pressure that can be obtained in staggering and I've used this method severial times in tricky situations; even better it's free :D (unless you can't obtain cycle inner toobs in 'la belle France') :D - Rob

Edit- sticky or masking tape probably won't give you enough pressure to make an effective fix; inner toob will!
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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Malc2098 » 05 Jul 2022, 10:02

Woodbloke wrote:
Andyp wrote:Woke up at various times last night thinking about it.
I did glue the busted bit back on, held together with sticky tape, impossible to clamp.


Here's an idea to try Andy, for things that really difficult to clamp. Go to your local bike shop and beg, borrow or steal an old cycle inner tube and then slice it up into long lengths around 12-15mm wide. Use it to wrap around said tricky clamping project, gradually increasing the tension as you pull and stretch the rubber around the job, wrapping in various directions according to where the pressure needs to be applied.

The pressure that can be obtained in staggering and I've used this method severial times in tricky situations; even better it's free :D (unless you can't obtain cycle inner toobs in 'la belle France') :D - Rob

Edit- sticky or masking tape probably won't give you enough pressure to make an effective fix; inner toob will!



The rubber strip hack is what luthiers, and us amateurs, use to 'clamp' the binding around the body age of an instrument. It works.
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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Andyp » 05 Jul 2022, 11:02

I needed cheering up after yesterday's disaster. For my twins it's baccalaureate results day here.. (A level equivalent)..
Its all in the jeans of course ;) :)
Even if dad can't spell :)

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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Malc2098 » 05 Jul 2022, 11:04

Andyp wrote:I needed cheering up after yesterday's disaster. For my twins it's baccalaureate results day here.. (A level equivalent)..
Its all in the jeans of course ;) :)
Even if dad can't spell :)

One happy Papa.



Congrats to them. :eusa-dance:
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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Woodbloke » 05 Jul 2022, 11:22

Andyp wrote:I needed cheering up after yesterday's disaster. For my twins it's baccalaureate results day here.. (A level equivalent)..
Its all in the jeans of course ;) :)
Even if dad can't spell :)

One happy Papa.

Nice one! :text-bravo: :obscene-drinkingcheers: - Rob
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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Andyp » 05 Jul 2022, 15:26

Thanks for the positive encouragements.

Here was how I left things last night. The break is under the tape on the left.

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After a bit of sanding I am left with this. Face grain looks not too bad end grain will need filling somehow.

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I was thinking about running a walnut dowel through the break for added strength.
Another idea to add strength was to add some 3mm veneer to the V, stopping where it meets the A. What do you think?
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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Malc2098 » 05 Jul 2022, 15:44

It's only just occurred to me and probably too late in the build process, but to strengthen instrument necks, some are laminated; i.e. cut lengthways down the middle and one half turned over so the grain is mirrored and then an odd number of thin laminates inserted in the middle. The whole lot is then glued and clamped.

Because of the weakness at the top half of the V as the grain is diagonal, perhaps the way to construct would be to make two thin halves and add a third V/A shape with the grain 90 degrees to the other two and then glue up.

I'm sure I could do that with the CNC when it's finally set up.
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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Andyp » 12 Jul 2022, 17:04

Finishing…

Glue up, 2nd attempt, was way to stressful for photos. The top has had two coats of Patina now and is looking good. In order to mimic the design of an existing table I made 35+ yr ago I decided to cover the exposed dowels with oak buttons. The buttons are recessed, not just glued surface glued. This also hides the awful mess I was left with after the CUF visited on the first glue up. A little more sanding required on the framework but constructionally it is finished.

I don’t think I have ever made anything without thinking I could do it better, or differently. This table is no different. In retrospect probably bitten off more than I could chew. The imperfections are a reflection of the maker :) .

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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Malc2098 » 12 Jul 2022, 17:54

Nice.
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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Cabinetman » 12 Jul 2022, 17:57

Hadn’t realised it was to be painted, you could have just filled in the dowel holes, looking good though.
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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Andyp » 13 Jul 2022, 07:16

Cabinetman wrote:painted
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The Patina finish does give the oak a darker tint as can be seen but definitely not painted :)

I do not think anyone else here has used it, Patina, and there has been some confusion in the past as to exactly what it is. This guy sums it up well as a polyurethane jelly.

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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby 9fingers » 25 Sep 2022, 10:23

Andy, I forgot to ask you about this when you came over to see us.
Did it all work out well in the end? I could not find a final finished photo. I hope Valerie was pleased and appreciated all the effort.

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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby Andyp » 25 Sep 2022, 10:54

Alas not quite finished :oops:
I just have the legs to varnish. As well as other stuff getting in the way the space allocated for its final resting place in the living room has been taken up by various bits of furniture from eldest daughter's flat who has moved back in with us after a failed attempt to find schooling further away from home.
Oh yes the table has gone down very well by all the people who have seen it in it's current state.

I'm working to a Christmas delivery date now. :)
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Re: V & A coffee table

Postby 9fingers » 25 Sep 2022, 11:14

Thanks for the update. Without checking the details I think you will still be ahead of your namesake's bed project with a Christmas completion date!

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Re: V & A coffee table, Finishing Straight

Postby Andyp » 08 Jan 2023, 15:02

Finally approaching the end of this project.

3M finish used. First time I have done this. Very surprised that French white spirit appears to have very little odour. I've been using UK sourced stuff that I bought more than 15 years ago up to now.
Also surprised at how little is required. I measured out about 30ml of each ingredient, bushed it on and used a less than a third.

I am pleased with the colour change, brings out the grain well.

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I've missed so many deadline with this, wedding aniv., christmas, birthday but I am confident of having this done my her ladyships name's day on the 28th April. :)
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