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Making a 3 legged garden table
I could esily build a 4 legged one but prefer the look of a 3 legged
tripod type layout of the legs apart from that the previous owner has done a poor job of laying slabs so a 4 legged would never be level. My problem is that anything I have looked appears complicated joints where the legs meet and may be beyond me for accuracy. Is there a simpler arrangement for constructing a 3 legged table where the legs angle out from a central point. Any ideas welcome. |
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Making a 3 legged garden table
On 25/08/2012 20:21, ss wrote:
I could esily build a 4 legged one but prefer the look of a 3 legged tripod type layout of the legs apart from that the previous owner has done a poor job of laying slabs so a 4 legged would never be level. My problem is that anything I have looked appears complicated joints where the legs meet and may be beyond me for accuracy. Is there a simpler arrangement for constructing a 3 legged table where the legs angle out from a central point. Any ideas welcome. The simplest arrangement would be three straight legs that are somehow tied together at something close to their midpoints, and then fanned out wigwam style. The bits from the join down providing the legs, then upper section up the table support. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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Making a 3 legged garden table
On 25/08/2012 20:21, ss wrote:
I could esily build a 4 legged one but prefer the look of a 3 legged tripod type layout of the legs apart from that the previous owner has done a poor job of laying slabs so a 4 legged would never be level. My problem is that anything I have looked appears complicated joints where the legs meet and may be beyond me for accuracy. Is there a simpler arrangement for constructing a 3 legged table where the legs angle out from a central point. Any ideas welcome. Simply make a four legged table & cut one leg off. :-) -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk |
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Making a 3 legged garden table
ss presented the following explanation :
I could esily build a 4 legged one but prefer the look of a 3 legged tripod type layout of the legs apart from that the previous owner has done a poor job of laying slabs so a 4 legged would never be level. My problem is that anything I have looked appears complicated joints where the legs meet and may be beyond me for accuracy. Is there a simpler arrangement for constructing a 3 legged table where the legs angle out from a central point. Any ideas welcome. Could you not fit adjusters to the bottoms of the legs, if it is going to be rigid? I made up a pub style table & bench unit a few weeks. That has four legs and it is on an less than even surface. They are no so rigid end to end and it's own weight makes it twist slightly so as to always sit with all four feet in good contact. Maybe you could design one pair of the legs so they could pivot, to accommodate unevenness? -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk |
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Making a 3 legged garden table
On 26/08/2012 13:03, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
ss presented the following explanation : I could esily build a 4 legged one but prefer the look of a 3 legged tripod type layout of the legs apart from that the previous owner has done a poor job of laying slabs so a 4 legged would never be level. My problem is that anything I have looked appears complicated joints where the legs meet and may be beyond me for accuracy. Is there a simpler arrangement for constructing a 3 legged table where the legs angle out from a central point. Any ideas welcome. Could you not fit adjusters to the bottoms of the legs, if it is going to be rigid? I made up a pub style table & bench unit a few weeks. That has four legs and it is on an less than even surface. They are no so rigid end to end and it's own weight makes it twist slightly so as to always sit with all four feet in good contact. Maybe you could design one pair of the legs so they could pivot, to accommodate unevenness? I may just go for a 3 legged straight legs in the end, This is more than `less than even` surface as height of some of the slabs differ by as much as 2 inches and it will be next year before I have the time to relay them properly. |
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Making a 3 legged garden table
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I may just go for a 3 legged straight legs in the end, This is more than `less than even` surface as height of some of the slabs differ by as much as 2 inches and it will be next year before I have the time to relay them properly. No ordinary table will cope with 2" difference in level without lots of help. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk |
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Making a 3 legged garden table
"Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message . uk... ss formulated the question : I may just go for a 3 legged straight legs in the end, This is more than `less than even` surface as height of some of the slabs differ by as much as 2 inches and it will be next year before I have the time to relay them properly. No ordinary table will cope with 2" difference in level without lots of help. Sounds like it needs a gimbal and a lump of concrete at the bottom. |
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Making a 3 legged garden table
On Aug 25, 8:21*pm, ss wrote:
I could esily build a 4 legged one but prefer the look of a 3 legged tripod type layout of the legs apart from that the previous owner has done a poor job of laying slabs so a 4 legged would never be level. My problem is that anything I have looked appears complicated joints where the legs meet and may be beyond me for accuracy. Is there a simpler arrangement for constructing a 3 legged table where the legs angle out from a central point. Any ideas welcome. Very easy, if you use very thick round legs you simply screw the slatted top to them. Simples. Perfect application for unchopped firewood. NT |
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On 26/08/2012 19:40, NT wrote:
Very easy, if you use very thick round legs you simply screw the slatted top to them. Simples. Perfect application for unchopped firewood. I am not grasping it NT. What I want to do is an X type layout for the legs but with 3 legs, I understand the screwing table top to the legs but it is the `joint` where the three legs meet that is the issue. |
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Making a 3 legged garden table
On Sunday, August 26, 2012 11:36:17 PM UTC+1, ss wrote:
On 26/08/2012 19:40, NT wrote: Very easy, if you use very thick round legs you simply screw the slatted top to them. Simples. Perfect application for unchopped firewood. I am not grasping it NT. What I want to do is an X type layout for the legs but with 3 legs, I understand the screwing table top to the legs but it is the `joint` where the three legs meet that is the issue. What you are looking for is known as a cricket table. Google that for some ideas. I made one last year. It was a nightmare to layout and cut the joints. Wasn't worth the effort. |
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