while I will never be a complete neander but I have slowly been gathering more hand tools. Now I need to build a hand tool cabinet.
I will always be a hybrid amateur wood hack.
Wednesday, my wife and I are going to drive to the best wood porn distributor in the area (Walla Walla, WA) and buy the hardwood I need to build a new dining table for my wife. I am planning on buying around 75 board feet of walnut or cherry, depending on what he has in stock.
The table will be an extension table. I bought a LV rack and pinion gear extension table mechanism so when you pull on one end to open the center, the other end will open simultaneously. I bought the pivot bar for the butterfly extension to come up out from within the center of the table. The main reason I am building this is my wife and I are getting older and weaker. Currently we store the extensions for current table in the basement. Lugging them up and down the stairs is getting more difficult for her diminishing strength and my balance issues. I am so looking forward to this challenge and build! The new table will be 66" long in the shortened mode, 90" long in the extended mode and 36" wide. The width is set to fit comfortably within the current dining area between an island and a buffet I made a decade or so ago.
The table will be a 4-leg pedestal type. My wife insists that the legs have some turning on them. I picture an octagon leg with a turned "bulb" about 5" above the bottom. My PM-3520B will handle the job, I'm sure. I need to order some leveling legs and threaded inserts to install them.
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