Pub Tables 1
Material = Superior Grade Alder
May 2008
The project before you is a pair of pub tables I was commissioned to build by a wholesale client of mine. I wish I had a picture of what each piece will look like in the end, but I am simply matching a pub table from a catalog. Each table will have a round top with a 3″ skirt extending below. There will be one large, fairly intricate, turned center leg that will have connect to four Duncan Phyfe style feet.
I began by milling up two boards to be used to cut out the eight feet needed for the two tables.
Before cutting any of the feet, I first created a template of the foot from some scrap particleboard I had laying around the shop. The reason for the template was two-fold. First it will be used to trace the outline of each foot, as you see in the picture above, and after each foot is cut out, the template will be used, along with a flush trimming router bit, as a pattern to ensure that all eight feet are exactly the same.
After laying out the feet on the boards, they were cut out on the band saw.
There they are folks! Eight partially completed feet. They are going to have to stay in this state for a couple more weeks because before I can complete the next step I need the two custom turned pedestal legs that I outsourced to another company.
Given that the feet are on hold, the table tops are front and center. I milled up enough Alder to glue up a 34″ and a 30″ circular top.
Using a bevy of clamps, the seven boards were glued together…
…and the next morning this is what it came out looking like. A glued up surface awaiting a compass and a router to cut out the circle.
A totally random picture of me cutting out the feet on the band saw, taken by one of my fathers employees.
In the near future I will post some pictures of J. Alexander’s shop and explain why my shop looks so large.