Building a beautiful dining room table in a pretty nice spot.

My good friend JJ has a shop up in McCloud CA. It is near Mt Shasta and actually has a great view of the mountain from the garage.
Mc. Cloud used to be a lumber town and now, as far as I can tell the only lumber facility that is there is Terramai. They sell all reclaimed wood from around the world. Beautiful stuff. I would recommend poking around on their website.

When the mills shut down in Mc Cloud JJ's family had the wherewithal to purchase some of the un-milled wood for future use in his restaurants or in homes or whatever. A lot of the wood is being used in E.J. Phairs brewery in Pittsburgh Ca. Or at least it will be in the near future.




Anyways,

The view from the shop.


Not so bad.

We planed and ripped, all of the floor board looking boards that you see in these pictures to be used as the floorboards in JJ's brewery's tasting room. They are currently seasoning Pittsburgh CA.






Bella, relaxing on the deck.














So we picked out some old floor boards from the mill that were the approximate size of the table we wanted to build and planed one side of the wood and ripped the outside edges. With all of the warpage and the sheer age of the wood, it was a bit like a puzzle putting these boards together so they were flat(ish).

We used a picture form 'The Wooden Duck' as a guide for building the table. Also for motivation to build our own (look at those prices!).


With the tongue and groove already installed from a previous life we just glued the boards together using Titebond Glue. It is the same glue I use on my guitars and it works great! We used tie-down straps to clamp the table together (see picture of the leg assembly). Especially working with something that is this big (and not having clamps that would fit) the tie downs worked perfectly. We then used clamps to flatten the table top out on some strait strong boards and let it sit overnight.

Then: we found the appropriate lumber for the legs and cut it to size and planed both sides. We used 4x4's for the legs and 2x6 for the cross member.

The piece of wood that the leg assembly is sitting on is what the wood looks like un-planed. It is a piece that was eventually used as the table top.

This is the legs almost done. You can see the lag bolts that are holding the legs and cross members together. We used glue and biscuits to hold the frame together.

Check out the table we are assembling the undercarriage on. it is a big steel table with a perfect 90 degree corner and holes for clamping pneumatic clamps. We did not have an air compressor to use the clamps but that table was great!


We used "L" brackets to screw the table top to the leg assembly. Then we sanded the table top down to remove the ridges and...

Here is the table! All together now.
"Here is the table".
See all of the imperfections and quirks! That is what makes it mine!
Next stop, Windsor and finishing (about 2months later)!