From Tree To Table, Gaming From Scratch

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Basic Carpentry, From Nature To Family Room

Source: Dave Hagen
3 Aug 17

Jeff and Jordy are First Class Gamers. In order to host gaming events and to set up multi-session games, they desperately needed their own table. Because we had already created a major carpentry operation during the construction of the Log Cabin, we decided to go back to Mother Nature one more time in order to execute the project that they wanted.

What transpired was a true “Tree To Table” program. We had felled many oak trees to clear for the cabin. We had logged and bandsawed them and sun cured them for use as lumber. This lumber was in storage in the boat shed.

To take it from there required a selection, hauling, multi-pass planning, sawing, rabbeting, joining, shaping, routering, drilling, slotting, fabrication, assembly, sanding, staining and finishing operation of massive scale.

To add one more element of nostalgia and utility, we were able to use the legs from a prized Italian desk that had been destroyed in our house fire in 2001. We had salvaged them and put them aside years ago, hoping to incorporate them into something useful again.

This was truly an On The Job Training program, but we learned quickly, soon discarding our original designs and completing an ad-hoc project that met our needs as we begin to fathom them at each step.

Here are a collection of photos to help us remember our learning process, accomplishment and adventure:

Step by step, here is how we made oak trees into gaming tables:

We exceeded even our own expectations!!

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