Bushwacked

So far seems very clear!

So the stands showed up at like 4pm yesterday and it was 106* so I didn’t feel like doing anything but getting them setup and ready for today or tomorrow when I get time to get out there. it’s a nice tight squeeze for sure haha. Although the Bora stands were easy to put together and the roller seems to work well. I guess we will see soon how helpful they are…

thanks for that ... first time doing any M&T work haha

started to mill today, found out 9' boards suck to run on a joiner without support, so I bought 2 Bora support rollers that will be here Saturday and I can continue. the top will be as close to 8/4 thick as I can get it ... looking at pictures, I guess yall are right, smaller BB's isnt a bad thing. I always just thought they were roughly the same widths as the main piece to keep symmetry and stuff. You are right ... BB's dont look terrible being smaller. I just had some vision in my mind that wasnt correct haha. So, now that I got over that mental hurdle of massive BB's, what size should I be looking at for a 9' table? would it be 4" or what? 4" seems like a happy medium ... thoughts?

hmmm he says its best to go into the breadboard about 1/2 to 2/3's the width ... that would be a really deep mortise if I used the 7" breadboards haha. I guess I could dry a drill press and chisel though?? Would hate to screw that up somehow doing it that way. Would smaller breadboards, like 3-4" or so look funny on a 9' table? The main table would have about 7 1/2 - 7 3/4 boards for that ... will know once I mill them but they all look mainly good and are all about 8" wide. If they would look goofy, does this table even need them? Maybe C channel would be a better approach? or since it is vertical grain doug fir, it wont be moving too crazy since all the grain is the same and just a normal put together table would work?

something like this?

hah! yep I have no idea what I am doing with them 🙂 I guess if I do not use my domino, then I might need to rethink how big the ends need to be ... For the domino, would I glue everything like normal though with the tight setting on the middle and loose on the outside? or what?

Thanks! question on breadboard ends … never done them before so they are one of a couple new challenges I wanted for this project … if my breadboard is probably coming out at around 7 1/2” wide … how deep should my tenons going into that?

Looking at table legs and ideas with the wife ... would 23" wide legs be too short for a table about 40" or so wide? Trying to figure out if it would be tippy

happy 4th to you too!! Hopefully you got a good burger or steak somewhere 🙂

thanks! hoping so!!

the problem was I couldnt find anything that showed nice grain for the cypress ... mostly all I could find was the fancier sinker/pecky cypress and then slabs. So she never got a real good visual of what it would look like. Douglas fir she did enjoy the nice quarter sawn/vertical grain of it.

Good to hear 😄 glad I won’t be staining though as that sounds horrible not taking stain evenly. oh wonderful, guess I’ll just start crying now in preparation of the splinters 🤣

Talking with the wife … I might be going quarter sawn Douglas fir. I know it’s on the softer end but great outdoor use. this project will be kicking off probably next week.

no, just a straight pipe down with nothing .. still waiting on Kev to test his sound dampener out 😉 , that would be the only thing I would add to it. I dont mind the dust, a quick water/mow will get rid of most of it.

After carving out all these I noticed some MDF dust … all the brown on the grass/sidewalk and up against the wall is fine MDF dust. Guess everything with the dust collection is working like it should haha Finally happy things are going well with the DC

looking good! Looks like the doors fit well, I hate doing doors I have the worst luck with something not being right and throwing it all off haha.

happy fathers and first grandfathers day ( is that a thing) to you too Kev!! Was at the ball fields all weekend … I feel it was worth it! Been waiting for this moment since 6 years ago when he graced us on Father’s Day … 6U champs

thanks! I am hoping this lasts him until college, or until he wants to build his own haha thank you! I surprised myself with this one and how well it turned out ... almost makes me want to rethink my desk and build another one 🙂

Already in use … and yes I had staged this one haha although he hadn’t had time to change after his games this morning so it all worked out

Here it is in place! I’m so happy with this one minus a couple screwups haha and signed the underneath… no telling how long it will take for him to find…

Let it sit from yesterdays final coats. Should be installing after all the sports today!

The first coat. I think the epoxy looks great and the yellowish white oak seems like a great contrast to the walnut. 1 down, like 3ish more to go ... we shall see

Hah! No kidding!! This texas heat doesnt make me wait long before a new coat. I guess its a blessing and a curse haha

thanks! really happy with how the shellac looks on there ... and super easy to spray/cleanup too in the gun.