We started by having a look at what we were dealing with, all the parts that the design team had cnced
Then we started to think about how it would all come together. I thought it might be a good idea to visualize it all upside down.
we concluded that we were going to need to start with a fair amount of wood glue.
So we grabbe dour glue and proceeded to clamp everything in place so that the top part 9the most important part) of the table would look great!
The major recurring challenge throughout this process was that the wood panels and parts had been cut from a "green" log, ie not treated, so it was imperfect and none of the fits were quite flush. To remedy this, we made some markings with a pen and hand sawed pieces to make the fits a bit better and hopefully the table more stable.
The other major challenge of table building was figuring out how the gantry was going to hold in place. We thought about hanging it from the top of the table, but that seemed prone to wobbling. So, we settled on fixing it to a bottom "plate" we would slot into the bottom (hidden) part of the table. The slot idea came from the fact that we would like to be able to remove the gantry if something goes wrong, so it needs to remain somewhat accessible.
Luckily, we found some heavy material in the architecture re-use space and went with it, cutting it to size.
Now we had to think about getting the legs in place and the body of the table. We thought for a while about glu, nails, screws and tried (and failed) at several methods. Finally, we settled on using brackets.
We then needed to glue the legs in place.
Woohoo! this is the first time we got the leg to stand on its own (before the legs were glued) We just wanted to make sure that the candle holes were lined up correclty.
This is the first shot of the table all glued up, we then clamped it down and let it sit overnight.
on the previous picture, te table had some little imperfections that we tried to fill in with a wood glue/ sawdust mixture. The hope was to let it dry overnight and hopefully make it look neater!
We the put the ouja board on the table and are waiting for the gantry to be finlized before putting everything into place !
