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Not My Coffee Table Project


Chet

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Today she started off by adding a small chamfer to the bottom edge of the table top.

First some practice with a piece of scrap.

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Then on to the actual top.

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Then it was a lot of sanding.  She started out using my ETS 150/5 but was a lot more comfortable using the smaller 125.

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Practiced  drilling the holes for the figure 8's.

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Then getting it done on the actual aprons.

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She tried doing a chamfer on the bottom of a scrap leg and she was doing fairly well but she said that she kept losing the grip of the plane and her hand was always sliding so I ended up doing the legs themselves for her.  One thing I have learned with this project is that we as adults take all the tools we use for granted but for a little one like her it is totally different.

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Then we glued up the base.  No action shots here, it took both of us spreading glue to get it done, it was pretty warm in the shopped I didn't want the glue setting up on us.  But I do have to say she has a real aptitude for spreading glue with a brush.  I guess the art time back in kindergarten paid off.

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6 minutes ago, Kev said:

Maybe a smaller plane for her is in order!

Yea I had told her there are smaller ones, and I think I am going to look into that.

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9 minutes ago, Coop said:

Do you have the equipment?

No I don't unless I used my phone and I am all thumbs even trying that. ?

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I know the feeling. Several weeks ago theBlue Angels did a fly bye here in Houston in honor of the medical workers. Three times they flew right over my office and all three times I screwed up. I ended up getting some neat videos of our parking lot but no planes. 

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Okay, the last day started off by attaching the figure 8's to the base.

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Then center punching for the screw hole in the top. 

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Then drilling and pre-threading the holes in the top.

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A final vacuuming of the parts before finishing.

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This next step is were she really left me impressed.  I thought this is were she would have some struggles but after practicing the spray process on some spare plywood.  I was real amazed at the job she did on the actual top.  She was just a little nervous and asked me to spray the base.

Spraying the bottom of the top.

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And the  top side.

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A couple of final pictures.

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And one with the newly minted woodwork.

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7 minutes ago, Kev said:

I also notice that she shoots finish better than you do @Chet?

There is absolutely no doubt that what she did yesterday is better then the first two or three things I did and I was in my thirties at the time with what one my call full adult dexterity.  So yea she is way better.

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12 minutes ago, Coop said:

Chet, what do your grandchildren call you? 

Maga and Paga.  It is something our oldest grand kid came up with when he was about 2.

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1 hour ago, Coop said:

Some things are best left unchanged!

Amen to that.

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It has been pointed out to me by my grand daughter's mom, who is my oldest daughter, that my grand daughter isn't ten years old she just turned nine.  My mistake.?

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