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No Power Tools Used to Build Table

Okie MomOkie Mom Member Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭
edited April 2014 in General Discussion
http://www.wimp.com/handtable/
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  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998 ✭
    edited November -1
    Beautiful! Maybe not even a nail?

    Wish I had that skill...
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  • Dads3040Dads3040 Member Posts: 13,552 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That is pretty darn amazing.

    Beautiful work. [^]
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    She'll still divorce his * and take the table with her.
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  • brier-49brier-49 Member Posts: 7,103 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My brother built a table using all reclaimed, no nails, his wife did leave him.
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******
    edited November -1
    wow. He does have some very nice tools though.
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,231 ******
    edited November -1
    Wow!! Very nice!! [^][^][^]
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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How my Grandad did it for 75+ years[:)] passed at 99+.
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Mr. Perfect
    wow. He does have some very nice tools though.

    I have a few of those planes, but that #239 dado plane is really sweet. Need to get that. I am working on a dry sink that was my Great Grandmother's and need to rebuild some of the parts. That will be the perfect tool.

    In some ways I like that it is a "knockdown" design. I have an antique pie safe that can be taken apart like that. The history behind that type of design is very interesting. But I prefer to go with a wedged tenon design when going without nails.

    And those boards were not hand sawn , he did work them by hand, but he did use power tools at more than one point in the process.

    I'd love to have some slabs of Allen's walnut timber for a table, that is outstanding work.
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  • BeeramidBeeramid Member Posts: 7,264 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It would appear that he may have done this a time or two before.

    BTW - Who needs power tools when you can build something like that in four and a half minutes.[:D]
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  • jltrentjltrent Member Posts: 9,344 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would have screwed up bout every joint cut he made, even with power tools. He has worked a many years at similar work as this before.
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  • CubsloverCubslover Member Posts: 18,601 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Very cool, thanks for sharing!
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I still have some of the tools that my grand father used in his woodworking shop...I love to go into a(wood) boatbuilding shop
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  • jwhardingjwharding Member Posts: 2,897 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Beautiful table, and he's fast to!
    jw
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Purdy sturdy, I'd say.
    [^]barto[^]
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  • reload999reload999 Member Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    wow, just amazing. I wish I could do that [:)]
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by forgemonkey
    Thanks for the 'link',,,,,

    Hours and hours of work and no shortage of love in that. [;)]

    No, I watched the video. It took four minutes and thirty-two seconds. [;)] [:D]
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That guy is good! That is a beautiful black walnut table.
    He was using a slick. This is an old-time ship-builder and log builder's tool.

    Here is a pic of my slick:


    slick001.jpg


    This slick was hand forged for me by a blacksmith from the drive shaft of a '54 Plymouth. He made me swing that big hammer; damn that was hard work. I use the slick for log home building. I made the handle from a dogwood tree.
    But that guy in the video is good! I use power tools whenever possible.
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