Poker table

[BillyJack]

On each radius I try and go a few longer pieces, then shorter. This gives me time to put smaller pieces inbetween the longer pieces without interrupting the seams as much. I'll wait an hour on smaller and an hour in the the larger, but I'll start a few inches in with a smaller opiece allowing time for other sections to dry as I go. 

 

As I mentioned before.." Older , Slower and Dumber". I make mistakes,  even our  hero's of woodworking David Marks, Sam Maloof, etc  make mistakes. I'm not perfect and neither are they. If they ever said they didn't make mistakes I'd say" liar, liar pants on fire" with a Jim Carrey grin.

 

On the inside radius laminations pieces at the end get tight. The more pieces the more tired and lazy you get. I cut this piece and decided it was a good oportunity to show how atleast I will fix this. I have plenty of smaller pieces I've cut off as I go. From a sliver to 1". I keep them around till the job is complete.

 

Here I have a small gap. About 1/8. I could have recut the piece but the radius is so busy you would be never notice.

 

[BillyJack]

The goal.

 

[BillyJack]

The glue I'm using is older. The TB2 is atleast 5 years old and is before they started dating in 2019. I believe the TB- is 3 years old...

 

[BillyJack]

Starting the second stage of the chip ring. First piece will have no glue followed by glue. The scribe is thinner this time around as the radius gets tighter.
 

[BillyJack]

On these bands…

I can usually do about 3/8 of an inch. On a good day I’ll do 1/2… Depends on how early I start and aggressive I get ..

[BillyJack]

Give you an idea of what's involved each round of 1/8 lamination.

 

[BillyJack]

I'm at about 3 3/4 now. Goal is 4.5 on the second ring with a beauty ring to follow., Hard part is the chip cutout. 

 

2-3 more days. This is the where  you'll need the most patience...

[BillyJack]

Pulled the Cherry for the outer arm rest ring. Deciding if I want a small beauty ring along the inside of the walnut chip holder between the chip holder and the actual poker playing surface.

 

[BillyJack]

Today I'll reach my goal of 4.5 inches. An outer ring 2 1/4 and an inner ring 2 1/4. While I have the mold setup I will probably make the beauty ring from cherry

[BillyJack]

Goal met 4.5 inches.Preparation is the key. Takes about 2 minutes to break loose. As you can see there are 2 separate rings in one.

 

[BillyJack]

With many days behind  me. Feelin old, I finally started sanding the chip rail.i had to reinstall the rail  so they were level to sand. Adjusting the hold down blocks as I go. 

 

You have to sand a small area and move to the next. With so much glue it softens with heat and this ring 10 times. Slowly reaching my goal, moving braces each time. D will just clog your sanding belt as it melts. Moving periodically can greatly improve performance

 Once it's clogged it's toast.

 

I probably went around 10 times moving the  hold downs as I went around. Patience,patience,patience...

 

[BillyJack]

With the ring completed and sanded, I focused on the chip trays. Carefully marking my lines, depth and distance of two chip bank

 

[BillyJack]

A little on the chip cutout.

 

[BillyJack]

Making poker chip race tracks......Going round and round..

 

[Dave H]

That ring looks great BillyJack is it made of particle board or MDF..... Just kidding all kidding aside beautiful work, that's a lot of glue ups and a lot of patients. I've enjoyed the journey. 

[BillyJack]

Don't have a card scraper. I'm running into a problem with sanding belts. They are new, but old. My 6x80 belts for the grizzly edge sander and 3x24 belts for the belt sanders are old and breaking apart. Must have broke/broke seam on 6 or more till I found one that could still sand. 

 

Nothing wrong with buying old/new sanding belts if you use them fast, but if your buying for bulk for long term sanding belts aren't the deal over time. 

 

Don't buy bulk unless your in the shop,and very busy, otherwise buy as you go for fresh stock..

 

[BillyJack]

Still chewing on Cherry. I believe when I did the last Cheryl table I used Red Mahagany stain. 

 

[BillyJack]

I bevel router the two inside sections of the ring to give me a defined line.

 

[BillyJack]

Other than installation and final sandiing,the chip rail is complete. Getting it out of the way and on to the cherry rail. The pattern is used again for the cherry rail.

 

[BillyJack]

You see little drawings on the chip rail. Im considering inlays, but undecided..

Sometimes too much , really is too much..

 

 

[BillyJack]

Bad knee or not, I’m going to  have to go to Menards and get more 1/8 Masonite. I have to go up that way Thursday. $14 a sheet ..”WOW”

[BillyJack]

When it cones to good wood, im slow, No hurries..

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Started cutting the cherry. Hard to cut long boards  to short boards, but it had to be done. It will take 12 pieces and require 1 1/2 boards. They were all bought years ago from the same dealer so there pretty consistant..

 

Thr angle is 15 degrees. 
 

[BillyJack]

I cut the angles at 15 degrees. I overlay the line and set it in just so the router can clean it later..

 

[BillyJack]

At this point checking, rechecked I make the second cut on the second piece and pocket screw it together. You want to make sure the pocket holes you put in do not interfere with routing the radius later..
 

[BillyJack]

Pocket holes in furniture?

 

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