Tea Table - Work in Progress

[Lars Thomas]

Hello Folks - First Time Posting!

I've been working on a 18th Century Tea Table from Lester Morgan's book. I am making it out of Cherry imported to Chicago from New Jersey (Willard Brothers - Trenton). Over Christmas we drove back East. I was able to sneak about 15 bdft (both 4/4 and 8/4) back in the minivan full of kids and gifts. So far, I have completed the 30" round top and the center post along with 2-1/2 of the three feet.

I don't classify my self as a Neander, but, I do have some tendencies from time to time. The top was scraped only, no sanding. The legs were formed with a Record spoke shave (plus the band saw helped a little).

I don't have a lot of experience with the spoke shave. But even so, I'm pleased with the progress so far. It's going far better then I expected.

Thought I would post some pictures of the work in progress.

Looks like I can just post one picture (or I'm not smart enough to figure out multiples. So here's a cobbled montage. I'll post a finished pix when it's complete. Lars

[Bob Lasley]

Lars,

Looks like your having lots of fun and learning along the way which are my number one priorities in a project. Looking forward to seeing pixs of the finished table.

Good luck,
Bob

[Garrett Lambert]

Hi Lars

Looks great. please show us more.

Here's how: Copy the following into your text, and substitute your photo URL's for the dummies. Delete any of the lines left over, or copy more if you need to add more photos.

You have to put a < in front of each line and a > at the end (no spaces). (If I put them in thus message, all you'd see is a red x on each line.)

IMG SRC="http://www.wwforum.com/member2/file1.jpg"
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IMG SRC="http://www.wwforum.com/member2/file2.jpg"
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IMG SRC="http://www.wwforum.com/member2/file3.jpg"
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Cheers, Garrett

[Dave Arbuckle]

Lars, looks like it is coming along great. How are you going to attach the legs to the post?

Garrett, to show an HTML command without it being executed, there is a "special" command for showing the less than and greater than angles. The commands are:

&amp;lt; for less than, &lt;
&amp;gt; for greater than, &gt;

The semicolons are important, some browsers go whacky if they are not present. When inputting commands, I recommend using preview, one missing anything and things can get kind of weird.

So, to show a image inclusion, type:

&amp;lt;img src="http://www.wwforum.com/member2/file1.jpg"&amp;gt;

which will look, when posted, like

&lt;img src="http://www.wwforum.com/member2/file1.jpg"&gt;

Dave

[Lars Thomas]

Dave, the legs will be attached via sliding dovetails.

Thanks for the info on posting hosted pixs.

[Ted Shrader]

Lars -

Lookin' good so far. Let's see more pictures as work progresses. (You got a good tutorial.)

Ted

[Dave Anderson NH]

I'm particularly partial to 18th century designs. In fact, our guild started a period furniture group last year and we draw about 15-20 people to each meeting. Are you going to carve anything on the feet, or are you going to leave them plain?

[Steve Schoene]

Its a good project. If you get to New York, you would find it interesting to see the table that Margon, rather loosely, based his drawings on. It is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art study collection.

Margon made a lot of changes from the original. He modified the legs quite a bit, making the "knee" much higher with a more pronounced curve. He also changed the method of dovetailing. In Margon the pedestal is flattened where the dovetails are cut while on the original the pedestal is left round and the shoulders on the legs are undercut to match the pedestal. The molding profile on the edge is different, and don't foreget that Margon's drawings left off the "donut" you need to secure the wedge into the pedestal and provide for the top to turn smoothly.

[Lars Thomas]

Dave, I plain to leave the feet plain. I'm afraid that I would really be pushing my luck to try to carve the ends.

Steve, that's great insight on Margon's omissions. If I was following his plains to the 'T' I would have be in real trouble without your advice.

However, since mine is loosely based on Margon loose interpretation, my table will look nothing like the original. I was in NY in December. I was hoping to get to the museum to check it out, but I just ran out of time. I get to NY every once in awhile, so I'll eventually see it.

I am not building the 'bird-cage' at the top (I have no need for the table to spin or tilt.) Instead, I have made the center spindle longer.

All, thanks for you encouraging remarks. Lars

[Garrett Lambert]

Many thanks. I knew there was such a code, and looked for it, but without success. (I know close to nothing about HTML. I really must do something about that....)

In any event, I've saved a copy of your instructions for duture reference.

Cheers, Garrett

[Dave Arbuckle]

No troubles, Garrett. A list of tutorials is at <a href="http://www.w3c.org/MarkUp/#tutorials">http://www.w3c.org/MarkUp/#tutorials</a>. In particular, Getting Started with HTML by Dave Raggett is legendary. I'm happy to help when I can, but I'm not an expert. Now, if you need any advice programming financial processing systems in C...

Lars, carving a simple paw on the feet is a lot easier than many think. You would of course want to practice a couple on leftover pieces. Just a thought.

Dave