a round expanding dining table with a leaf

the black walnut tables roll on ... i think this is our 4th or 5th in the last
couple years.  this one is a variation on our midcentury modern style, only with a more open,
stationary pedestal, rather than a two part moving one in the photo below.

 

we made this design in july of 2014

of the same genre, there is also this design, from march of 2014. 

as usual, we started with some nice matched walnut from our friends at irion lumber.

both the earlier and the current cad drawings here

the equalizing runners we used on this table were from osburne manufacturing

base with the sub top, on which the runners are mounted.  

patchwork veneered top frame for the python chest on the sub top there.

trevor cut the halves, the base pieces and the aprons on the cnc, but
all those processes could be just as easily done by hand .. it might take much longer,
but the operations are standard for most woodshops.

heres trevor checking the runner mounting.  this hardware actually worked very smoothly.

ready for finish above, with one 20" leaf.  add the adam brown mahogany water stain and

a three coats of lenmar poly, and it left for virginia on tuesday.

fun project with a new designer client from the d.c. area ...

this just in ....

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a patchwork chest

well, chris and i finished up an interesting claro walnut patchwork chest this week.

we had a little help on the snakeskin and leather from isaiah mccaulliffe and his crew

at bespoke custom upholstery in manchester, vt .. the python was from edelman leather and the 

brown bomber jacket complement was from universal leather.

inside was northeast aromatic cedar paneling, planed thin to balance the veneered panels

the design was based on this claro walnut credenza we did for a client back in 2013.

we started with the cad drawing and a steel base by sam

and then we made a pile of shop sawn veneers from the various slab cutoffs we keep on hand

and worked our way through the process.  first step is to cut the veneers to shape and

temporarily tape them together with masking tape while we fit the pieces to each other.

          

 then the masking tape is replaced with veneer tape which is more easily removed

from the panel faces after they come out of the veneer bag.

once youve got the four panels cut to width and mitered, the next step is to glue up

the box.  in this case, we glued mitered clamping cauls to the faces of the panels with

brown paper bag strips to hold them to the panels while we (gently) clamped them together.

as i recall, we glued first the two opposite corners, let them sit, then finished up with the 

other two corners once the first pair were set.

we used the base as the reference for square and kept the pieces vertical with the L shaped 

supports to keep the panels plumb and square ... we also clamped in a temporary 

bottom of melamine to keep the case square.

once the corners were glued up, we knocked off the temporary cauls and
sanded off the paper bag remnants ... this trick works slick for tall miters.

glowing in the sun in the finish room

delivery to the client next week ... should be fun ... 

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