Blame it on Leon....

Or put another way, he'll probably take credit for it....

About a month ago, Leon replied to a post and supplied a link. On that lin k was a farm table project:

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I've been taking care of Mom 4 days a week and, sometimes, have a little ti me to myself, while there. I had some salvaged cypress stashed in the back of the property, there, and decided to pull the nails, power wash the plan ks and build a similar farm table. I finished spraying it today. Just hav e to attach the top to the base. 9'5" long, 36" wide, 30" high. The top i s a full 2"+ thick and fairly heavy.

I hope the mitered corners stay intact, i.e., wood movement. I was aware o f this possibility, when I decided to miter the corners.

I thought spraying the bolts black was a good idea, as in the above farm ta ble.

A fun, neat project:

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Thanks to Leon for the timely link.

Sonny

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Sonny
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Nope it was not me! ;~) IIRC

But your table looks better than the top link table.

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Leon

Very nice work. As Leon's agent I'll take care of the billing and commissions. Please send me your credit card information so I can take care of Leon's fee.

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Ed Pawlowski

Sonny, I'm impressed! To me pieces like that belong in a stone castle somewhere.

Lifting stuff like that you'll end up out living us all. :)

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OFWW

Beautiful! I love cypress. When we moved into this house It had a cypress fence around the back yard. The boards were sitting on the ground and the ends had rotted some and it looked awful. But then it was about 25 years old. I replaced the boards and sawed off the bottom foot or less, ran them through the planer and was amazed how nice the boards looked. I made a lot of projects with that cypress.

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G. Ross

You're right. I stand corrected. This is where it came from:

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It had been a while since I had seen the post & link, so I couldn't remembe r, but I knew you had something to do with it, so you're still to blame.

Back then, apparently I had saved the August Oak link, and referred to it j ust a month ago, when I cleaned up the cypress boards. I recall not knowin g what project to do with them, as I de-nailed and cleaned the boards. The thick planks (floor joists from a demolished house) limited my project cho ices.

Thanks. Sonny

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Sonny

fairly heavy looks really heavy

but it will withstand almost anything and looks built to last you have probably mentioned your favorite finish before but what did you use for the finish

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Electric Comet

Thanks Ed. I'll get back to you as soon as my CPA finalizes/finagles the figures.

Sonny

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Sonny

I'm getting the idea that you think my table is the August Oak table. It is not.

My table is the smaller cypress one, in the Flickr pics link. And it is fairly heavy.

Thanks. Sonny

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Sonny

Thanks. I wish cypress wood was a little harder. Sometimes, it's a little soft for some prospective projects. If this table becomes abused/damaged, the cypress is usually easy to repair, because of its softness.

Sonny

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Sonny

Head hung low.....OK...;~)

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Leon

I used (semi gloss) Varathane, for its durability. My favorite finish is l acquer, which I mostly use for my more refined projects or for (furniture) finishing or refinishing, generally.

For the more utilitarian projects, I find Varathane applies and dries fast and easy, hence, taking the easy way out of the finishing process. This ta ble (salvaged wood) has "defects", so being/having a perfect and prefectly finished surface is not required.... but the surface and finish is in very good shape.

Another difference with my table and the August Oak table: The guy install ed hex head lag screws, to attach each the feet and the upper brace board t o the upright base posts. I drilled a 9/16 hole through my feet and upper brace and through the 5X5 posts, in order to secure/tie the whole unit wit h 1/2" threaded rods, with (recessed) nuts & washers above and below. Tha t August Oak table is so big and heavy, I'm surprise the guy settle with us ing only lag bolts for that/those attachments.

Sonny

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Sonny

Sonny - another great looking, impressive piece. I have worked with cypres s before and agree it can be soft, but the trade off is that the wood is ve ry stable and almost impervious to UV damage and rot. I like the fine grai n of the wood you selected for your top; it must have been a very old log.

What did you use to cut the long miters on the top?

Oh yeah... I am fine with blaming stuff on Leon as needed.

:^)

Robert

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nailshooter41

Thanks Robert.

Though I have a 12" RAS, it was loaded with junk on it. I used a Sawbuck.

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It had a sharp blade, for a change, so I was confident to get a good cut. Sometimes, with a duller blade, a cut may not be as perfect as I might like, especially with this old of saw. I don't have a CMS.

Sonny

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Sonny

there is always varathane here it must be forgiving because i use that for large surfaces and it comes out well

have never liked lag bolts and am pretty sure i never used them on purpose

but if i did use them i would also use glue on each bolt

the nuts and bolts are the way to go

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Electric Comet

Holy crap, Sonny! I haven't seen one of those in 30 years! Literally!

If you can get that accuracy out of that old "Sawbuck" (I went back and looked at those miters again, they look fine to me) then you would be absolutely dangerous with the right tool.

Makes your cypress table >>even more impressive

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nailshooter41

Hell, built two recording studios with one of those, among (many) other things, everything from framing to siding.

Was as tickled shitless when I first bought it (used) as I was with my first Festool. ;)

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Swingman

Again, if I didn't know you...

I used one of those and it was not sturdy or accurate, and just seemed dangerous. I much preferred the old style miter sleds we made on site and used with our circular saws.

When was that, Karl?

Robert

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nailshooter41

Certainly compared to today's SCMS's ... still, did a lot of trim work in those days with it, designing acoustic environments for recording studios and control rooms.

And, it was soooooo _portable_.

70's through the mid 90's.
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Swingman

Well, maybe the one I used for a bit was just out of adjustment. The one I used was under powered and had seen a lot of site and travel time.

I got a 10" radial saw sometime in the early 80s, and wound up not liking i t either. It was under powered and while I meant it for a site saw, it was a portable as a dead '53 Pontiac. So I decided to make it a "shop" saw, a nd liked it less. No matter what I did, that saw never stayed in perfect a lignment for miters. I had to shim up the table every time I used it. 1/1

6" here and there, and the back fence would move and swell due to weather.

So I could see how that would be attractive since there weren't really any other tools that did what that one did at the time.

Robert

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nailshooter41

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