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mickyd · Post by **mickyd** » Sun Nov 07, 2010 10:16 pm

Great looing table Julian. Real professional look. Are coasters for drinks required?

juwester · Post by **juwester** » Sun Nov 07, 2010 11:20 pm

Thanks gentlemen. Yes, lots of mission furniture -- mostly old -- several pieces bought damaged and repaired with aid of the Shopsmith. Coasters definitely required!

burkhome · Post by **burkhome** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 6:33 am

True definition of craftsman is evident in that table.

rkh2 · Post by **rkh2** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:43 am

Nice looking table. Always liked the mission style furniture. The Oak adds to its elegance. Great Job!

nuhobby · Post by **nuhobby** » Thu Nov 18, 2010 3:07 am

Here is a spare-time project from the last couple of weeks. My wife decided to get a new, higher office chair. She then wanted to move the keyboard and everything above the desk-surface rather than on/below it.

I had one junk miter-gage that I decided to employ (eBay said it was Shopsmith, but on arrival it looked like a knockoff). I re-used it as a Table Trunnion:
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The lower wood piece is 2" thick walnut for mass and stability. I cross-cut that on the Power Pro, very cleanly.

juwester · Post by **juwester** » Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:17 pm

Chris,

That's a nice laptop stand. One question -- the trunnion that's a repurposed miter gauge -- is there anything on the other side, or is the table pivoting/supported on one point?

nuhobby · Post by **nuhobby** » Sun Nov 21, 2010 7:17 pm

juwester: Hi and thanks!
There is about 3-4" length of the original miter-bar sitting flush in a mortise in the base wood-chunk. The miter's 'pivot' is just above the wood base piece. The miter 'lock knob' would originally be on a threaded stud, but I changed it to a piece of all-thread that goes into both the miter-bar and the wood to help hold it better.
The opposite side of the table sits on a simpler "trunnion." That is just a piece of 3/8" steel dowel that goes into holes on the table-assembly and the base-assembly. It is much like a Shopsmith 500 table, overall.

juwester · Post by **juwester** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:27 pm

Chris,

Thanks for the explanation. might have to make something similar myself!

Julian.

mrblanche · Post by **mrblanche** » Fri Nov 26, 2010 4:10 pm

An experimental electric guitar. The body and neck are strips of birch furniture-grade plywood, glued up solid. The inlay and fingerboard are purpleheart.

mickyd · Post by **mickyd** » Fri Nov 26, 2010 4:59 pm

mrblanche wrote:
An experimental electric guitar. The body and neck are strips of birch furniture-grade plywood, glued up solid. The inlay and fingerboard are purpleheart.

Sure gets an A+ for looks. Nice job. You happy with the play?

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