| Project by MonteCristo | posted 06-13-2012 02:47 AM | 2160 views | 2 times favorited | 8 comments |  |
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This is a pedestal table I built for the same guy who wanted the first project I posted, that monster salad bowl. I built it a few years ago and was not thinking I would ever be posting pictures of it so they are not the best.
This table is based on one I saw in Fine Woodworking a few years ago. My version has more (12 or 16 – can’t remember for sure) faces on the tapered pedestal than the 6 in FWW. It is also somewhat bigger in diameter.
The base is frame and panel, ie. the central part of the base is floating within a frame, which is like a triangle with concave curves for sides.
The top is from 2” walnut which with care came out at about 1.75 ” in the finished table.
The table is collapsible into three pieces: the top, the pedestal and the base. A truss rod runs from the bottom side of the base up thru the pedestal and into a captive nut in the underside of the top.
I managed to build this table entirely on my own. Being a 160 lb (72 kg) weakling, I was quite pleased to have managed that as the table weighs well over 100 lbs (50 kg).
The wood is American Black Walnut. The finish is tung oil with a polyurethane overcoat.
-- Dwight - "Free legal advice available - contact Dewey, Cheetam & Howe""
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Ryan Haasen
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#1 posted 06-13-2012 03:10 AM
Wow, thats a big table, how did you cut out the circle (table top)?
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molan
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#2 posted 06-13-2012 03:31 AM
that’s a nice table! it must have cost a small fortune to build that out of black walnut!
MonteCristo
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#3 posted 06-13-2012 05:03 AM
Ryan:
There’s a blind hole where the captive nut is in the underside of the top. A router was attached to a straight edge that was rotated about that hole.
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a1Jim
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#4 posted 06-13-2012 05:29 AM
Very nice work I like this design and the wood selected .
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MonteCristo
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#5 posted 06-13-2012 04:20 PM
Hi Jim:
Thanks Jim. I know you’ll appreciate it when I say this guy didn’t exactly overpay me for this piece. Still, I learned a bunch doing it.
-- Dwight - "Free legal advice available - contact Dewey, Cheetam & Howe""
MontanaBob
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#6 posted 06-14-2012 02:05 AM
Beautiful table..I was wondering – chairs to match?...I have to keep the wife from seeing this or it’s back to shop…lol…
rad
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#7 posted 11-04-2012 02:44 AM
Beautiful table! I love working with walnut, plentiful here in Kansas
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#8 posted 06-28-2016 02:14 PM
Dwight, this table is a real beauty.
helluvawreck aka Charles
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