Creating a Coffee Table for Steph

[EddieWalker]

Steph has recently discovered scrap booking. This is something new to both of us and the house has become overwhelmed with it. She absolutley loves using different paper and decorating the pages with different themes. It's almost like the pictures themselves are now secondary. hahahaha

We have a small home without allot of inside storage. At first, she packed up everything and put it in my shop. This made the house look nice, but it was in my way, so now she just leaves it out. Every night she works on it from just an hour to five hours or more!!!

Our coffee table is a silly metal thing with a glass top. It might look OK, but it's useless space. I told her that I could make her a coffee table that will give her a place to organize her things and be out of the way.

Here's a picture of our mess and why I need to build this.

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

First picture.

The top is going to be made from Oak on our land. I have some logs laying around that have been on the ground for a year to almost two years. I cut a clear length of oak five feet long.

Second Picture.

I have an attachment that goes on my chainsaw that allows me to follow a standard 2x6 board. I just screw it to the side of the log and start cutting.

Third Picture.

You can see some of my cedar logs in the background. This is just a few of them as I figure I'll need hundreds to build the park. Until then, I just keep cutting them to 8 1/2 foot lengths. But that's a different thread sometime in the future. hahaha

Fourth Picture.

This shows what the log looks like after being cut. It's a VERY NICE piece of wood!!

Eddie

 

[goaliedad]

Eddie- is there anything that you can't do????? nice looking project- we need to see the finished table.

 

[scott_vt]

Afternoon Eddie,
Yep, youve got a space problem !

That saplted wood is beautiful ! It even gets nicer after its sanded and had a finish put on it !

This past saturday, one of my friends had a guy come over his place with a LT-40 Woodmiser to cut up a bunch of cedar for him. What a slick unit that is. We had a pile of beautifully sawm cedar in no time flat. Although the rig goes for something like $15,000

Keep us posted !

 

[JazzDad]

This tabletop is spaulted Pecan.
http://www.countrybynet.com/attachments/files/37768-Table1.jpg

 

[Egon]

JazzDad; you using rotten wood because good wood is too Expensive??

 

[Knotbored]

Eddie-I have one of those things for my chain saw but have never used it. It came in an open box with no instructions (a sale item.) How do you get that 1" thickness? Just move ot over by eyeball then nail the 2X6 down?
That wood with the splayed markings will be beautiful. If you find some soft spots in it then LOWES store carries a material that repairs dry-rot. Pour it on and it absorbs then hardens like a rock. I have seen some wood turnings with similar material-they look like marble.

 

[randy41]

nice eddie. did you sharpen the chain differently for ripping...like making the cutters square? did it take a while to get through that board?
i once used my saw to make pine boards based on the instructions i found in the book Chainsaw Lumbermaking.

 

[EddieWalker]

Goliedad,

Thank you.

Scotty,

Each board I cut, I dream of one of those mills that will do the job better, faster and easier. The chainsaw gets it done, but the pain facter adds up.

Jazzdad,

Very nice table. If I had space for a real table, that's extactly what I'd want!!! Beautiful.

Egon

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Knotbored,

On my attachement, I need the 2x6 to be over 2 1/2 inches to get a one inch piece of wood. The first cut it to get a flat edge on the log. I screw teh 2x6 into the side of the log with about two feet hanging off the end the cut will end at. You need the saw to continue past the log while cutting.

Make that firt cut down deep enough to give yourself a good flat surface. It's painful holding the saw there, but the better you hold hte saw, the better cut you get.

Now that you have a flat surface, screw your 2x6 to where you want to cut your lumber. After each cut, I move the board over 2 1/2 inches and do it again. I only do one or two boards a day as it's sort of a project I'm doing between other projects and I hate running a chainsaw when I'm tired. Just another item on my list of things I'm afraid of. hahaha

Randy,

I have one of those Harbor Freight chainsaw sharperners that does an OK job on sharpening my chains. It's not something that I want to mess around with by changing angles or doing anything different. It took me long enough just to get it to sharpen the teeth like they are now.



Here are a few more pics of the lumber I'm cutting for the table top and legs.

Eddie

 

[Egon]

Eddie:

In answere to the question mark, I've been able to compilment JazzDad on his table before. I've a little unassembled spalted maple furniture stacked in the basement myself.

I also have an edger but it fits over a 2x4 in.

I have also made a chainsaw quide of my own that I much prefer to the edger although it is the sampe principle.