As the crazy guy who made it, its nice to see Marc post it (i was a little surprised actually, given that Marc and I were emailing about it around 6 months ago. Those are the fall maple leaves from my front yard in some of those pictures. :-) :-) )

My delta is one of the special edition ones from about 10 years ago before Delta cost reduced the heck out of the saws with the “X” series saws. 1 1/2 HP, but I was resawing 11″ thick(tall? wide? what DO you call it when its standing on edge…) and the saw was sure having a heckuvatime… Patience was at a premium. (and it was a new saw blade at the beginning, and by the time the resawing was done that blade was toast… I hadn’t realized how abrasive wenge was.

The biggest thing i messed up in the table is that the front and back aprons are nicely curved… and I got one of the boards flipped, so the grain is completely and totally wrong, the grain’s opposite to the curve. (SIGH)

I should take a couple of pictures of the “wrong grain” so that we could post it as “here’s how to do grain wrong” sadly its a case study :-)

The biggest challenge of all on the table was flattening the top after the resaw. I ended up using a veritas bevel up jack plane with a toothed blade. Pretty much everything else just skipped over the wenge and wouldn’t cut.

Hope everyone is having a good monday!

I have had problems with my 14 inch delta too. If yours is one of the ones sold in recent years like mine is, it is terribly underpowered. 3/4 hp motor. I souped mine up with a bigger pulley and a better blade. It did make a difference. I also plan to add a bigger motor. But, I regret getting the saw in the first place now because with all the add-ons I have put on it I should have just bought a better saw in the first place.