Table Halved

7/1/19, 7:40 PM #1

Kneale Brownson
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Table Halved

Kneale Brownson

Just over a month ago I asked for suggestions on ways to get a bulky table into our new basement (http://www.woodcentral.com/woodworking/forum/messages.pl/page/9/md/read/id/525842/sbj/cut-paste/)

Cut the top in half today, turned it upside down on saw horses, inserted a piece of 2X4 between the side aprons on each side of the cut and completed the halving with cuts through the aprons. Now it's sitting on saw horses at the cut ends. I need to dress the cuts up some, clamp it together and provide holes for bolts to hold it together in the basement.

Do you think I'll need a removable fifth or sixth leg in the middle? It's used for laying out and cutting fabrics. It's about 4X7 feet.

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I’m a fairly spry 82-year-old who had been a reader/participant at WoodCentral since the demise of Badger Pond. I started visiting BP to learn something about finish for a project I’d completed and became hooked on internet forums as a way of increasing my knowledge about all sorts of topics. I have been a moderator for a couple other forums on subjects I enjoy. My interest in woodworking began in the early 1970’s when my wife and I had contractors add to our house near Traverse City, MI, and I ended up doing the trim work to reduce mounting costs. I had no tools. I bought a P-C skilsaw, hammer, screwdrivers and one of those wooden miter boxes with a backsaw. I made trim for windows and doors from one-by lumber and started my woodworking career. At the same time, I started a 50-year career as a ski instructor. I got onto the night shift at a mental hospital so I could ski days, and spent my 30s and 40s with that schedule. I eventually replaced the PC-upside-down-in-a-board with a real table saw and began the purchase of enough equipment to fill a jam-packed 40-foot shipping container we used after we sold our property in Michigan. The ski instructing had taken us to Colorado and we were spending too much on maintaining utilities for two homes. A couple years ago, the dozen years spent at 10,000 feet of elevation was making my body produce too many red blood cells, so we had to leave my “forever” home in the mountains and we moved back to Michigan. Now I have to find myself a shop space for all those tools in the container.

Re: Table Halved

7/1/19, 8:58 PM #2

Keith Newton
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Re: Table Halved

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You might just screw a couple of 2x 4 cleats underneath that bridge the span easier than adding a leg.

Re: Table Halved

7/1/19, 11:00 PM #3

Kneale Brownson
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Re: Table Halved; legs added

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Found that clamping the two crosspieces together did not keep the table flat, so I'm adding removable legs to the bolts that will hold the two crosspieces together.

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I’m a fairly spry 82-year-old who had been a reader/participant at WoodCentral since the demise of Badger Pond. I started visiting BP to learn something about finish for a project I’d completed and became hooked on internet forums as a way of increasing my knowledge about all sorts of topics. I have been a moderator for a couple other forums on subjects I enjoy. My interest in woodworking began in the early 1970’s when my wife and I had contractors add to our house near Traverse City, MI, and I ended up doing the trim work to reduce mounting costs. I had no tools. I bought a P-C skilsaw, hammer, screwdrivers and one of those wooden miter boxes with a backsaw. I made trim for windows and doors from one-by lumber and started my woodworking career. At the same time, I started a 50-year career as a ski instructor. I got onto the night shift at a mental hospital so I could ski days, and spent my 30s and 40s with that schedule. I eventually replaced the PC-upside-down-in-a-board with a real table saw and began the purchase of enough equipment to fill a jam-packed 40-foot shipping container we used after we sold our property in Michigan. The ski instructing had taken us to Colorado and we were spending too much on maintaining utilities for two homes. A couple years ago, the dozen years spent at 10,000 feet of elevation was making my body produce too many red blood cells, so we had to leave my “forever” home in the mountains and we moved back to Michigan. Now I have to find myself a shop space for all those tools in the container.

Table Halved

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