Shadow Box coffee table - Ping Han

On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:01:24 -0500, Swingman <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 9/12/2012 7:34 PM, Lee Michaels wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote
>>> But, I did make an animated video of my design some months back just
>>> for grins, so far it's as far as I've ever gotten on owning an actual
>>> sofa table <g>:
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ZmNRoNduk&feature=plcp
>>>
>> I don't want to criticize, but wouldn't it be hard to build such a table
>> if it keeps moving around like that? ;)
>
>Here, nailed it down for you ... decided to go ahead and start an album
>in hopes it will provide the impetus/opportunity to get the actual
>fabrication started:
>
>https://picasaweb.google.com/111355467778981859077/EWoodShopArtsCraftsSofaTable#

It truly brings back memories of my bow saur years, Swingy.
<sniffle, sob, honk>

--
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act,
the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
-- George Lois

"Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote
> But, I did make an animated video of my design some months back just for
> grins, so far it's as far as I've ever gotten on owning an actual sofa
> table <g>:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ZmNRoNduk&feature=plcp
>
I don't want to criticize, but wouldn't it be hard to build such a table if
it keeps moving around like that? ;)

Swingman <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> A guy in Florida just emailed me about the possibility of building a
> shadow box coffee table for his Civil War artifacts.
>
> Have you started on yours yet?
>
> I'll probably use the same design we came up with a few months back.

I have the wood for it, I think (I thought I had ordered some of the
quartersawn white oak as 2x4, but it came all 4/4 thick, so I probably
will have to glue up the legs). The workshop/basement has been a
terrible mess because I had insulating done in the attic and around the
basement where the foundation meets the framed walls. Things are slowly
getting into some kind of order ...

As practice, I am close to finishing up a "sofa table" for behind our
sofa, in the same style, but higher, narrower and longer. That is being
made from recycled pine and/or fir. It will NOT have a shelf close under
the glass top.

I am still not quite 100% recovered from this horribly bad bout of
whooping cough, so I am doing things really slow.

All that explanation before I ask, what can I help with?

--
Best regards
Han
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Swingman <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> On 9/12/2012 4:13 PM, Han wrote:
>> Swingman <[email protected]> wrote in
>
>>> Have you started on yours yet?
>>>
>>> I'll probably use the same design we came up with a few months back.
>
>> I have the wood for it, I think (I thought I had ordered some of the
>> quartersawn white oak as 2x4, but it came all 4/4 thick, so I
>> probably will have to glue up the legs). The workshop/basement has
>> been a terrible mess because I had insulating done in the attic and
>> around the basement where the foundation meets the framed walls.
>> Things are slowly getting into some kind of order ...
>>
>> As practice, I am close to finishing up a "sofa table" for behind our
>> sofa, in the same style, but higher, narrower and longer. That is
>> being made from recycled pine and/or fir. It will NOT have a shelf
>> close under the glass top.
>>
>> I am still not quite 100% recovered from this horribly bad bout of
>> whooping cough, so I am doing things really slow.
>>
>> All that explanation before I ask, what can I help with?
>
> Nothing really, just curious and checking to see if you had made any
> progress on perfecting that design. If I do this job, there will be a
> hinged apron for access, and the box depth itself will be close to 5",
> which will change things around quiet a bit from the original.
>
> I'm envious of your working on a sofa table ... my long planned sofa
> table keeps getting put on the back burner. Did buy the leg stock (1
> 3/4 x 1 3/4) recently, but got no further than that. But, I did make
> an animated video of my design some months back just for grins, so far
> it's as far as I've ever gotten on owning an actual sofa table <g>:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ZmNRoNduk&feature=plcp
>
> One of these days ... cobbler's kids are the last to have shoes.

Neat!! Mine won't have the drawers, and the upper aprons/rails are 2"
wide only. The lower rails are 3". And mine will have a shelf between
the lower rails, resting on a cleat, as in the original design from the
magazine. I am putting it together with dominos, so there won't be
through tenons. The top will be glass in a frame. I was fighting that
frame, because the glass kept either being squeezed or too loose. Now I
sort of gave up, and it will be loose in the shalow rabbet formed by the
mitered frame. I should have used my edgerouter to clean up the rabbet
when it was just a bit too tight. Fooling with that soft pine is a pain.

I like the looks of the corbels (?). Are they functional, or decorative?

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

On 9/12/2012 7:34 PM, Lee Michaels wrote:
>
>
> "Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote
>> But, I did make an animated video of my design some months back just
>> for grins, so far it's as far as I've ever gotten on owning an actual
>> sofa table <g>:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ZmNRoNduk&feature=plcp
>>
> I don't want to criticize, but wouldn't it be hard to build such a table
> if it keeps moving around like that? ;)

Here, nailed it down for you ... decided to go ahead and start an album
in hopes it will provide the impetus/opportunity to get the actual
fabrication started:

https://picasaweb.google.com/111355467778981859077/EWoodShopArtsCraftsSofaTable#

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On 9/12/2012 4:13 PM, Han wrote:
> Swingman <[email protected]> wrote in

>> Have you started on yours yet?
>>
>> I'll probably use the same design we came up with a few months back.

> I have the wood for it, I think (I thought I had ordered some of the
> quartersawn white oak as 2x4, but it came all 4/4 thick, so I probably
> will have to glue up the legs). The workshop/basement has been a
> terrible mess because I had insulating done in the attic and around the
> basement where the foundation meets the framed walls. Things are slowly
> getting into some kind of order ...
>
> As practice, I am close to finishing up a "sofa table" for behind our
> sofa, in the same style, but higher, narrower and longer. That is being
> made from recycled pine and/or fir. It will NOT have a shelf close under
> the glass top.
>
> I am still not quite 100% recovered from this horribly bad bout of
> whooping cough, so I am doing things really slow.
>
> All that explanation before I ask, what can I help with?

Nothing really, just curious and checking to see if you had made any
progress on perfecting that design. If I do this job, there will be a
hinged apron for access, and the box depth itself will be close to 5",
which will change things around quiet a bit from the original.

I'm envious of your working on a sofa table ... my long planned sofa
table keeps getting put on the back burner. Did buy the leg stock (1 3/4
x 1 3/4) recently, but got no further than that. But, I did make an
animated video of my design some months back just for grins, so far it's
as far as I've ever gotten on owning an actual sofa table <g>:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ZmNRoNduk&feature=plcp

One of these days ... cobbler's kids are the last to have shoes.

--
www.eWoodShop.com
Last update: 4/15/2010
KarlCaillouet@ (the obvious)
http://gplus.to/eWoodShop