Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Table - building the legs

While I'm home on vacation for the Christmas holiday, I've been able to spend some time on my dining room table project. 

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I'm planning to use a square leg design for the table. I am gluing up the legs in the above photo.  Once they are dry I will run them through the planer and get them to the proper dimension. More photos to come on that process.

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Here I am gluing up some boards that will be used to mount the legs to.  They will attach to the bottom of the table top and them the legs will be bolted to them to provide a secure and removable option if the table needed to be moved.  My goal is to use as much of the salvaged lumber that I can.  I was little short on these pieces, so I cut a half-lap joint where I glued and also put in two dowel pins for strong joint.

Next up in the building process is to cut a trough in the top of each leg so that it can mount to the the cross braces I built in the above photo.