Lazy Susan

[Mcdavid]

So I am tasked with building a table top lazy Susan that will be used for card games. My father brought me about 200 bft of chestnut, red oak, poplar all taken from a tobacco barn in KY. I thought the Susan would be a great way to display the wood.

I'm not into the rough rustic look of most reclaimed projects plus I needed jointed edges to glue up the panel so I thought I would go ahead and clean up the wood.

You can still see the nail holes, cracks, and worm holes so all the charm isn't gone.

All cleaning has been done by hand but I used my planer for thickness. Ready for the glue up.

The middle chestnut and left and right oaks have a crack so I'm working on keying them tight.

I need to now cut the circle out but have no clue on how to do it. I know I can made some jigs for the band saw or router and I don't mind using a power tool but don't have much room in one direction to mess it up. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks!

[davewyo]

Since you can hide a center hole on the inside surfaces of the lazy susan I would make a quick and dirty circle cutting jig to use with a router.

[Mcdavid]

6 hours ago, davewyo said:

Since you can hide a center hole on the inside surfaces of the lazy susan I would make a quick and dirty circle cutting jig to use with a router.

Thanks! Got some of the same advice earlier today. I will probably do this soon. Pretty nervous!

[Bart]

Looking forward to seeing this one progress!  Some nice tools there.