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Over the past year, I know I am slow, I have been asking questions on how to build a table base with several curved pieces. Well the base is finally finished. Unfortunately there is more epoxy and filler than I had hoped so it is painted. In the picture it is just primed. I have not settled on a final color yet.

So what is up with the image link in this new software? I clicked on the insert image and pasted the direct link from photobucket. In the edit window the image shows inline but when posted it just shows a broken link icon.

<img src = 'http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac332/ekskp/table%20base.jpg'>

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Sorry, forgot the method. I have been using old HTML programming code to post pics.

< img src = ' ' >

Just put your pic link from the photobucket copy inside the single quotes. I think double quotes works here too if memory serves.

I like it!

What top?

It is to bad that this is not garnering much interest 

I know the amount of effort that a base like this takes and AFAIC you deserve a hundred atta boys for your effort




Good Job

Nice base Bope, but no top shown? Everyone needs to go to their Control Panel and check the box to show images. Then they become visible, like magic sorta...

I like the design and even though I am not a paint fan, some times you gotta do what you gotta do!

Are you going to make another one and perhaps fine tune the final product?

Very nice! Looking forward to the top.

Wow. That's impressive.

Thanks for the kudos. I learned a lot making this base. The curved pieces taper along the curve from top to bottom. I initially thought I could do this with a jig and router. That didn't go so well so I tried my hand and hand planning. Removing the bulk with a band saw then finalizing the taper with a jack plane worked very well. My initial intention was to make this base out of poplar and then make a nice one out of cherry. With the things I learned I think I could make the pieces good enough for staining but I am not so sure about the final product. The joint where the two curved pieces meet is real bad. Even after 4 tries I still did not get a good joint. The joints where the curved pieces meet the foot I used dowels, pined them in the curved piece then tried to draw bore them into the foot. I must have messed up with the offset hole in the dowel on a couple of them because they did not snug up tight. To reinforce the joint between the two curved pieces I glued them together then tried to drill a hole down through the joint and insert a dowel. That worked but the hole was not clean enough for stained work.

I am currently working on the top. It will be a hexagon with veneer. There will then be a cherry border and skirt around the top. That will all be stained. I am having troubles finding veneer that I want. I initially was thinking of alternating light and dark veneers but the wife stopped that. She wants some thing light colored. I don't think I need to be as light as maple just not as dark as walnut. I was hoping to find some burl or at least varied grain veneer that could make an interesting pattern. The problem is I need veneer 26"x20" for each section. If they are bookmatched with in each section then they only need to be 10" wide but I then need 16 pieces. I have been looking at B&B rare woods since they are easy to search by size. The only thing I can find that looks interesting is their camphor wood. It is light colored and interesting grain. The problem with that interesting grain is that it makes a female genitalia pattern. Wife didn't think she could sit at a table with 8 vaginas looking back at her. Any suggestions on veneers to use or sources to look at would be appreciated.

I did notice the next day that the picture was shown in the posting. I didn't change any of my settings. I wonder if there was just some lag getting the image linked to the post.

Curves are the signature of an artist. No cookie-cutter square patterns here!

4 tries? WD had 40 tries to get it right.

Did you work from a full size schematic trying to work out the joinery there?  Or was this all trial and error?

I like the end result.  Great job!

Only if I was going to have a glass top would I have insisted on stain. With a veneered top, the base will take second place. Have you thought about rounding some of those sharp edges?