Stuart Ablett
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Ishitani san is at it again, another beautiful table and another great video by his talented wife.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Beautiful table.
So why was he hammering the wood around the mortises at about 7:09 in the video?
He is compressing the wood before they pieces are glued in. The fit he makes is tight, so to install the bow-ties he hammers them first, to make them smaller, then when the glue is added and the pieces are pounded home they will swell with the glue and they will fit perfectly. I've seen some English craftsmen do a similar thing.
Interesting video, thanks for sharing!
At 6:50 I think? that that is a super surfacer, that's a machine you really don't see state side and I kind of wonder why he chose to use it on those pieces... (I only sort of know of them anecdotally) - maybe for very specific dimensioning?
The second one is maybe a bit more in my style preference but they're both nice tables.
Its kind of interesting because one fellow I know locally does some woodwork (he mostly makes a specialty product) and ended up getting some folks commissioning tables that he couldn't turn down at several thousand per on top of the cost of goods. I wouldn't have thought there was that much demand for high end tables in what is a fairly poor rural town but apparently there was enough he was being kept pretty busy making them on top of his other work (was hard to say no to the extra cashflow ).
The ?low speed? (might just be the camera) spinning blade of death with the adjustable fence he uses for cutting the tenon haunches is quite the interesting rig as well. I don't think I've seen anything quite like it before either.
I also just realized that I'm an idiot (actually that is an ongoing discovery) but I linked to the wrong video, that is the old video, here is the new video that I wanted to link to.