Hello All,

I'm back and I do have to apologize for being away so long. The first part is that the laptop I was using last summer fell and the screen hinges broke. It must have done some internal damage to the machine because I couldn't get into a lot of my accounts including my Gmail and Selkie Wood Works Blog. And as a result I got locked out of those and many other accounts.

The other reason is that my family and I endured a lot of illness. I especially have been quite ill and unable to work. And of course it's been very cold here and my shop isn't heated so there you are.

I have recovered and I've got a new laptop and I was finally able to get back into my old accounts so I'm able to continue blogging here at last so let's get started.

When last we met I was starting an end table project with a piece of cut off oak slab as the top as a gift to my son and daughter in law. I intended to build a simple framework for it and then attach the frame to the underside of the top and be done with it.

Sometimes these things don't work out. Here is a review of the photos and a discussion:

Here's the top. It's long and narrow, white oak, and I got it for a song. Here it is with a coat of poly on it and it looks lovely:

 
Here's what part of the frame looked like. It was to be glued and screwed down to the top and to give it strength that long piece in the left side of the photo was to be glued and screwed to that center stretcher on both ends:

And here it is. It looked good until I dropped it and broke it. The joinery was freshly glued and screwed together and now, well, it's not.

There was another issue-in the photo you can see how the legs are splayed out. I originally did this as the table would be been very narrow and tippy with just an ordinary frame. I worked on this design and never could get the joinery right or strong enough for the table to last a long time. If you look at the photo just about you can see that I changed it so the legs would have perpendicular to the floor. To adjust the the narrowness I made the framework wider. The made the corners of the frame visible along side the top.

So the frame and the project are at a standstill. I debated going to the local big box store and getting some narrow diameter black plumbing pipe to make a different frame for it, but they don't carry that anymore. After several minutes of aggravation I decided to ditch the frame and order some hairpin rebar legs for it and that's just what I finished doing.

The legs should be here in a week so I'll set this aside until they arrive.

 Well I'm sorry we got off to such a crummy start but I will be doing some other projects. 

Stay tuned,
VW