I am now working out the pinned lap joints for my coffee table legs/frame. The mathematics to work out weight distribution gets you so far and then its pure trial and error. The slighter the frame, the more trial and error involved - the table must not buckle under a few magazines!
I am continuing to explore the many facets of the #LondonPlane tree by making a coffee table whilst exploring structure & form for larger table designs. #Lacewood being what it is, I will control its visual wildness by reducing the blocks and great expanses of timber. I also plan to reduce the visible engineering of the table and make the limbs look light and with lots of negative space.
This particular table uses timber with unusual spalting marks, that I have only previously found on beech, a far less attractive and interesting wood. Spalting occurs when two diseases attack a tree at one time and it appears as as discolouration framed or ringed with a hard black outline (see pics). I am using the spalted wood for the legs and frame and the more neutral, paler pieces of #Londonplane for the top.
Bench progressing well. I have now jointed the top to the frame and I have a 97cm high sturdy bench with a low shelf. Next I need to fit the vice and drill holes for the bench dogs.
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The workbench is coming along nicely. The legs and frame are jointed and glued up and feeling strong and a great height for work. The ropey bits of beach for the top have planed and jointed well. Now for the worthwhile yet testing process of flattening the top with a jack plane.
I am currently adapting an old school workbench I bought on eBay for £50 for professional use. The beach bench was only 65cm high and its paint daubed top was warped and split apart. It looked like it was well loved/abused in its academic heyday.
I have deconstruct the bench and remade longer legs to replace the original short (and rotten) legs. I have made new 92cm high legs to give the new bench a total height of 96cm. Perfect for an old back like mine.
Its good to do some basic hand joinery every now and then to remind yourself of the importance of doing simple things very well.
This luxurious revolving bookcase in black walnut is softly nostalgic with a smooth modern revolving mechanism with apertures sized for modern paperbacks. Two sides of the cabinet have shelves extending along its full length to display the book spines whilst the two other sides have apertures to display the book covers. The cabinet rotates on a turntable mechanism which is attached to a solid walnut base.
Ariel, a biography of Percy Shelley by Andre Maurois was one of ten titles chosen for the launch of Penguin paperbacks in 1935. The name Ariel apparently comes from the boat which Shelley designed and which was sank off the coast of Italy, leading to his death.
Materials : black walnut
Dimensions: 50cm(l) x 50(w) x 65(h)
Available to buy on Etsy
This luxurious revolving bookcase in black walnut is softly nostalgic with a smooth modern revolving mechanism with apertures sized for modern paperbacks. Two sides of the cabinet have shelves extending along its full length to display the book spines whilst the two other sides have apertures to display the book covers. The cabinet rotates on a turntable mechanism which is attached to a solid walnut base.
Ariel, a biography of Percy Shelley by Andre Maurois was one of ten titles chosen for the launch of Penguin paperbacks in 1935. The name Ariel apparently comes from the boat which Shelley designed and which was sank off the coast of Italy, leading to his death.
Materials : black walnut
Dimensions: 50cm(l) x 50(w) x 65(h)
Available to buy on Etsy
This luxurious revolving bookcase in black walnut is softly nostalgic with a smooth modern revolving mechanism with apertures sized for modern paperbacks. Two sides of the cabinet have shelves extending along its full length to display the book spines whilst the two other sides have apertures to display the book covers. The cabinet rotates on a turntable mechanism which is attached to a solid walnut base.
Ariel, a biography of Percy Shelley by Andre Maurois was one of ten titles chosen for the launch of Penguin paperbacks in 1935. The name Ariel apparently comes from the boat which Shelley designed and which was sank off the coast of Italy, leading to his death.
Materials : black walnut
Dimensions: 50cm(l) x 50(w) x 65(h)
Available to buy on Etsy
Affordable luxury from Heliconia Furniture. This narrow refectory table in walnut has a long bevelled edged top supported by delicate profiled legs. Originally designed with a clients small living room in mind, the style of the table is inspired by the gait of running horses and the pedestrian Motorway bridges.
Affordable luxury from Heliconia Furniture. This narrow refectory table in walnut has a long bevelled edged top supported by delicate profiled legs. Originally designed with a clients small living room in mind, the style of the table is inspired by the gait of running horses and the pedestrian Motorway bridges.
Available to buy on Etsy
Affordable luxury from Heliconia Furniture. This narrow refectory table in walnut has a long bevelled edged top supported by delicate profiled legs. Originally designed with a clients small living room in mind, the style of the table is inspired by the gait of running horses and the pedestrian Motorway bridges.
Available to buy on Etsy
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