The table is on a trestle base and expands with an 18" leaf. Like
other projects, I did not work from any plans. I only built 4
chairs, however, and wish I'd built a couple more for when the
table was expanded. The table and chairs had no metal fasteners
used in construction; the leaf was positioned with dowels.

The chair seats and backs were cut on the bandsaw using a jig I
built to cut a large radius. The backs were glue-ups of walnut
and cherry, where the seat centers were just walnut with a
rounded-over cherry surround. The individual seat pieces were
first glued up and then drilled and doweled together for strength.
Those dowels don't show on the photos, but were hidden by the
rounded over seat surround, which itself is doweled in place.
Structural dowels were of hand turned Hickory for strength.

The primary wood of the table and chair seat/back was cherry. The
legs of the chairs, trestle base for the table and a band
separating the edge from the top were walnut. The finish for all
was poly modified Tung oil. No stain was used, other than the fire
brought out by the Tung oil, which is seen in the photos. I built
several other kitchen pieces to match, which I'll post later.



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Nonny

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and articulate person who has absolutely no clue
concerning what they are talking about.
The person is typically a media commentator or politician.

Nonny wrote:

The table is on a trestle base and expands with an 18" leaf. Like
other projects, I did not work from any plans. I only built 4
chairs, however, and wish I'd built a couple more for when the
table was expanded. The table and chairs had no metal fasteners
used in construction; the leaf was positioned with dowels.


Nicely done




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Rob Leatham

"Nonny" wrote in message
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The table is on a trestle base and expands with an 18" leaf. Like
other projects, I did not work from any plans. I only built 4
chairs, however, and wish I'd built a couple more for when the
table was expanded. The table and chairs had no metal fasteners
used in construction; the leaf was positioned with dowels.

The chair seats and backs were cut on the bandsaw using a jig I
built to cut a large radius. The backs were glue-ups of walnut
and cherry, where the seat centers were just walnut with a
rounded-over cherry surround. The individual seat pieces were
first glued up and then drilled and doweled together for strength.
Those dowels don't show on the photos, but were hidden by the
rounded over seat surround, which itself is doweled in place.
Structural dowels were of hand turned Hickory for strength.

The primary wood of the table and chair seat/back was cherry. The
legs of the chairs, trestle base for the table and a band
separating the edge from the top were walnut. The finish for all
was poly modified Tung oil. No stain was used, other than the fire
brought out by the Tung oil, which is seen in the photos. I built
several other kitchen pieces to match, which I'll post later.



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Nonny


Very nice use of the two woods!!

"Vic Baron" wrote in message
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Very nice use of the two woods!!

It was a bit of a source of disagreement in the family. Mrs.
Nonny liked both cherry and walnut, but had some mild reservations
about them together. Since the first kitchen piece I built was
the table and chairs, I followed up using the same combination for
the other pieces and she eventually became a fan. As everyone
knows, cherry ages from a pretty light colored wood to a deep
reddish color, so the two eventually would have become less
distinct. I also did some different pieces using mahogany, with
its more reddish color already established.

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Nonny

ELOQUIDIOT (n) A highly educated, sophisticated,
and articulate person who has absolutely no clue
concerning what they are talking about.
The person is typically a media commentator or politician.

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:38:46 -0800, the infamous "Nonny"
scrawled the following:

The table is on a trestle base and expands with an 18" leaf. Like
other projects, I did not work from any plans. I only built 4
chairs, however, and wish I'd built a couple more for when the
table was expanded. The table and chairs had no metal fasteners
used in construction; the leaf was positioned with dowels.

Some of the figure in that cherry is outstanding. Booful!


The chair seats and backs were cut on the bandsaw using a jig I
built to cut a large radius. The backs were glue-ups of walnut
and cherry, where the seat centers were just walnut with a
rounded-over cherry surround. The individual seat pieces were
first glued up and then drilled and doweled together for strength.
Those dowels don't show on the photos, but were hidden by the
rounded over seat surround, which itself is doweled in place.
Structural dowels were of hand turned Hickory for strength.

Bwahahahahahaha! "Structural dowels". Har!


The primary wood of the table and chair seat/back was cherry. The
legs of the chairs, trestle base for the table and a band
separating the edge from the top were walnut. The finish for all
was poly modified Tung oil. No stain was used, other than the fire
brought out by the Tung oil, which is seen in the photos. I built
several other kitchen pieces to match, which I'll post later.

A hearty THANK YOU for that, sir.

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at least in highly political areas such as global warming. Still,
it's remarkable to see how quickly corrective information can now
spread. After years of ignored freedom-of-information requests and
stonewalling, all it took was disclosure to change the debate. Even
the most influential scientists must prove their case in the court
of public opinion—a court that, thanks to the Web, is one where
eventually all views get a hearing. --Gordon Crovitz, WSJ 12/9/09

You have been a busy beever!
I am impressed with the work.
Nice addition to your home.....
john
"Nonny" wrote in message
...
The table is on a trestle base and expands with an 18" leaf. Like
other projects, I did not work from any plans. I only built 4
chairs, however, and wish I'd built a couple more for when the
table was expanded. The table and chairs had no metal fasteners
used in construction; the leaf was positioned with dowels.

The chair seats and backs were cut on the bandsaw using a jig I
built to cut a large radius. The backs were glue-ups of walnut
and cherry, where the seat centers were just walnut with a
rounded-over cherry surround. The individual seat pieces were
first glued up and then drilled and doweled together for strength.
Those dowels don't show on the photos, but were hidden by the
rounded over seat surround, which itself is doweled in place.
Structural dowels were of hand turned Hickory for strength.

The primary wood of the table and chair seat/back was cherry. The
legs of the chairs, trestle base for the table and a band
separating the edge from the top were walnut. The finish for all
was poly modified Tung oil. No stain was used, other than the fire
brought out by the Tung oil, which is seen in the photos. I built
several other kitchen pieces to match, which I'll post later.



--
Nonny

ELOQUIDIOT (n) A highly educated, sophisticated,
and articulate person who has absolutely no clue
concerning what they are talking about.
The person is typically a media commentator or politician.