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This one is going to be a desktop for the nice lady at the business next door to us that ALWAYS brings me and the girls free food whenever she cleans out their fridge... :yes:
My girl PH standing outside her business door 'looking' for her and wanting some 'treats':
Desktop is going to be 'roughly' 3' x 6' when it is all said and done...
Since this nice lady FEEDS us - HER stuff has to be BETTER than good and she has the 'lifetime' warranty on everything! LOL!
Doing the whole desk for her... Walnut 'live edge' top with Walnut raised panels (doors / panel thingies) all around the outside of the desk base. Bowfront panels in the front of the desk as far as I know right now... :thumbsup:
I got her slabs surfaced yesterday and glued together. Today was 'dogbone' cut and install day and 'sanding' day. (lots of Walnut wood boogers today)
My 'dogbone' template that I made from scraps a while back and have used on a PILE of different jobs...
Some of the installed bones...
Can you guess WHERE the seam is where I joined the two slabs together at???
Seam is shown in this picture also (sorry it is so hard to read the tape - 13" is the crack in the middle and numbers go UP as you go to the right side of picture...)
Can you spot the seam yet???
:thumbsup:
Before I joined these together I routed out some grooves and then installed a maple spline along the full length of the joint. Glued the WIZZ out of everything... NO WAY this glue joint is going to take a dump in the future. :no:
In this picture you can see there is no glue on the part of the dogbone that is floating between the crack... That part is NOT getting filled with anything. :no: The crack is STAYING there just like it is and glue globbed everywhere would have looked bad. The dogbone IS glued where it 'counts' but not where it is not 'supposed' to be glued at. We are NOT using epoxy on this crack to fill it. Going to finish right over it / around it and leave it showing for 'character'! LOL!
These get turned into a dining table for our primary 'finisher' in the next week or so... Guy got lucky and found his materials CHEAP a few years back. Everyone at work is pulling together to do his dining table on the side and NOT have it cost him anything in the end... HE is going to have one wicked table in the end... :yes:
IF anyone 'guesses' within a half inch of where my joint is - I will buy them the beer of their choice... (so long as it aint some crap that costs me $20 bucks! LOL!) First correct guess wins - Send me your address and your beer money WILL arrive soon thereafter... This offer ends at 9:34 on 6/12/2013 so if you are going to 'guess' - Do so now...
My girl PH standing outside her business door 'looking' for her and wanting some 'treats':


Desktop is going to be 'roughly' 3' x 6' when it is all said and done...
Since this nice lady FEEDS us - HER stuff has to be BETTER than good and she has the 'lifetime' warranty on everything! LOL!
Doing the whole desk for her... Walnut 'live edge' top with Walnut raised panels (doors / panel thingies) all around the outside of the desk base. Bowfront panels in the front of the desk as far as I know right now... :thumbsup:
I got her slabs surfaced yesterday and glued together. Today was 'dogbone' cut and install day and 'sanding' day. (lots of Walnut wood boogers today)
My 'dogbone' template that I made from scraps a while back and have used on a PILE of different jobs...

Some of the installed bones...

Can you guess WHERE the seam is where I joined the two slabs together at???

Seam is shown in this picture also (sorry it is so hard to read the tape - 13" is the crack in the middle and numbers go UP as you go to the right side of picture...)

Can you spot the seam yet???
:thumbsup:
Before I joined these together I routed out some grooves and then installed a maple spline along the full length of the joint. Glued the WIZZ out of everything... NO WAY this glue joint is going to take a dump in the future. :no:

In this picture you can see there is no glue on the part of the dogbone that is floating between the crack... That part is NOT getting filled with anything. :no: The crack is STAYING there just like it is and glue globbed everywhere would have looked bad. The dogbone IS glued where it 'counts' but not where it is not 'supposed' to be glued at. We are NOT using epoxy on this crack to fill it. Going to finish right over it / around it and leave it showing for 'character'! LOL!

These get turned into a dining table for our primary 'finisher' in the next week or so... Guy got lucky and found his materials CHEAP a few years back. Everyone at work is pulling together to do his dining table on the side and NOT have it cost him anything in the end... HE is going to have one wicked table in the end... :yes:

IF anyone 'guesses' within a half inch of where my joint is - I will buy them the beer of their choice... (so long as it aint some crap that costs me $20 bucks! LOL!) First correct guess wins - Send me your address and your beer money WILL arrive soon thereafter... This offer ends at 9:34 on 6/12/2013 so if you are going to 'guess' - Do so now...