No WIP for this one as I had no great expectation that it would ever be a successful project.
We have had a 900mm wide refectory table for many years and for at least the last 15 years a common theme from the Fuzzette after a nice dinner has been 'I wish this table was 6" wider'.
After pondering and dismissing the idea of adding outriggers to the existing table I started playing around in my stash of second quality Maple Silkwood. The boards I have are full of knots, crotch pieces, sapwood and woolly bits. I first experimented with a test cabriole leg that became the first actual of four, then I started playing with bits to make the rest of the frame and top and I pretty much made things up as I went along.
Originally I had intended this to be a draw leaf table, but when the Fuzzette did some height testing against our existing chairs I was informed that it was not to be a mm higher than the single thickness top on the frame unless I wanted to also deliver new chairs as well. Since I had already made the main top piece 600mm shorter than the table it was to replace and not being able to easily cut down the legs, I needed to come up with some other way to make the extension and decided to just add a separate outboard extension that sits on pull out leaf supports.
It was difficult to find enough clearish pieces to glue up the top and it was a major PITA to flatten as the grain runs every which way around the knots and tearout while planing was extremely annoying.
table.jpg top.jpg extension.jpg
We have had a 900mm wide refectory table for many years and for at least the last 15 years a common theme from the Fuzzette after a nice dinner has been 'I wish this table was 6" wider'.
After pondering and dismissing the idea of adding outriggers to the existing table I started playing around in my stash of second quality Maple Silkwood. The boards I have are full of knots, crotch pieces, sapwood and woolly bits. I first experimented with a test cabriole leg that became the first actual of four, then I started playing with bits to make the rest of the frame and top and I pretty much made things up as I went along.
Originally I had intended this to be a draw leaf table, but when the Fuzzette did some height testing against our existing chairs I was informed that it was not to be a mm higher than the single thickness top on the frame unless I wanted to also deliver new chairs as well. Since I had already made the main top piece 600mm shorter than the table it was to replace and not being able to easily cut down the legs, I needed to come up with some other way to make the extension and decided to just add a separate outboard extension that sits on pull out leaf supports.
It was difficult to find enough clearish pieces to glue up the top and it was a major PITA to flatten as the grain runs every which way around the knots and tearout while planing was extremely annoying.
table.jpg top.jpg extension.jpg
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