Comments on: 11- Arts & Crafts Table (Pt. 2)

By: Michael Carnright

Michael Carnright — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:07:31 +0000

Love your site! I started watching the video pod casts two days ago and just got caught up. Now I have to wait for the next one :-( You have a great sense of humor. “Lets get ready tooooooooo….”

It seems to me that the domino by Festool is a mobile multi-router :-)

Keep them rolling!

By: Johan

Johan — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:44:13 +0000

Thanks for the explanation, Marc. I don’t know why I didn’t realize it. It’s the same as jointing then planing for thickness, instead of just jointing down to size. (I don’t have a planer, so after watching your milling podcast, I built a sled for my router which works great.

You have an excellent site, thanks for sharing your knowledge.

By: thewoodwhisperer

thewoodwhisperer — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:11:21 +0000

Hey Johan. Although a table saw will cut a nice 90 degree edge, it will only cut the edge into a nice straight line if the edge against the fence is nice and straight. So we must take a trip to the jointer first. Now once you have a straight edge, you might be tempted to simply run your second rough edge over the jointer as well. This would indeed produce a straight 90 degree edge. But what it doesn’t do is produce an edge that is perfectly parallel to the first. You can and most likely will produce a wedge-shaped board that is wider on one end than it is on the other. So by going to the table saw and trimming our second edge, we are ensured a perfectly parallel edge. Now you could stop right there and go directly to the glueup, but I prefer to run the tablesawn edge over the jointer one time to ensure a pefectly accurate joint.

This may seem a bit picky, but when you glue up your boards and you cant even see the glue line, you will be thankful for the extra effort you put into the preparation.

Hope that explains everything.

Marc

By: Johan

Johan — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:55:44 +0000

Hi Marc,
Excellent tutorial again.

I have a question though. At the very end, you joint the board edge to 90 degrees, then run the board through the table saw for the other edge. Why not just run both through the saw, if the saw blade is set to 90 degrees, or joint both edges on the jointer?

Also, what epoxy do you use?

Johan

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:54:27 +0000

My wife came into the room to make sure i was really watching a woodworking show when she heard the glue up part. Almost got me in trouble but well worth it.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:36:20 +0000

I laughed out loud at that whole glue up sequence… loved it! Keep up the great work, can’t wait for episode 3.

By: Normand Canac-Marquis

Normand Canac-Marquis — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:53:47 +0000

Thank you, I like it very much. Marc very sympatic and jhis explanations are very clear… et clever!
I dont exactly like the rap with explanation, but I am an old man, so, stay do what you think is good and funny!

(My english is not good, I am French and I dont have enough opportunety to practice…. )

Normand

By: thewoodwhisperer

thewoodwhisperer — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:16:35 +0000

Thanks for the kind words guys. Im glad you are enjoying the series.

I would say at least two more episodes. I dont really want it to go longer than 4 total. So we might have a few longer than usual episodes.

Marc

By: Darryl

Darryl — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:41:49 +0000

thanks for keeping it real by not editing out the epoxy part!

Another great episode, I look forward to watching the table come together. Any idea how many episodes you are planning for this project?

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:43:17 +0000

EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!

Linked from Fine Woodworking e-letter to catch the episode.

Again Marc….nicely done!!!

Neil