Table base completed

[Bope]

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.

[stav]

<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.

[K. L. McReynolds]

I like it!

What top?

[JGrout]

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

[jasfrank]

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...

[iublue]

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?

[bennybmn]

Very nice! Looking forward to the top.

[®smpr_fi_mac®]

Wow. That's impressive.

[Bope]

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.

[WoodTinker]

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?