Mhunter
3rd August 2010, 05:21 PM
My name is Matt and I introduced myself to the QANTAS check in attendant carrying over 30kg of Jarrah at Perth heading for Sydney. Picked it up in the Sth West after going through a timber town.
I have played a bit with pine and also some Aussie hardwoods before. But really Im still pretty novice.
The plan is to make a nice dinning table. roughly 900 x 1100 x 720.
Thinking of building the legs and frame first, then build the top from joining 19mm x 160mm thick Jarrah boards.
Tell me if Im way off track here, but I thought of getting the boards for the top redressed and thicknessed (to remove the small amount of cupping) just before I buscuit join the boards together. The one piece table top would then be joined to the frame (allowing for expansion and movement by using some sort of metal fasterners (possibly something like figure 8's or similar).
The 4 legs are currently 1.5' square (skinny? - yes perhaps). They might get some sort of small trimming TBA. Held in the standard "skirt?" frame fashion.
Finish will be oil, wet sanded down to at least 2000 grit.
Any suggestions or comments from the best fasteners to any scarry things I might need to know would be appreciated, but I have been trawling the forum and have already found heaps of great stuff - thanks already! :2tsup:
I have played a bit with pine and also some Aussie hardwoods before. But really Im still pretty novice.
The plan is to make a nice dinning table. roughly 900 x 1100 x 720.
Thinking of building the legs and frame first, then build the top from joining 19mm x 160mm thick Jarrah boards.
Tell me if Im way off track here, but I thought of getting the boards for the top redressed and thicknessed (to remove the small amount of cupping) just before I buscuit join the boards together. The one piece table top would then be joined to the frame (allowing for expansion and movement by using some sort of metal fasterners (possibly something like figure 8's or similar).
The 4 legs are currently 1.5' square (skinny? - yes perhaps). They might get some sort of small trimming TBA. Held in the standard "skirt?" frame fashion.
Finish will be oil, wet sanded down to at least 2000 grit.
Any suggestions or comments from the best fasteners to any scarry things I might need to know would be appreciated, but I have been trawling the forum and have already found heaps of great stuff - thanks already! :2tsup: