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Started by johnharvey, December 05, 2009, 08:08:49 PM

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johnharvey

Finally finished my wife's new dining room table. The sweetgum lumber was generously donated by pineywoods. (Thanks again for that). Table is traditional mortise and tenon construction.  John Harvey



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johnharvey

Having trouble uploading photos. Anyone got any suggestions?
John Harvey

zopi

Got Wood?
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Tom

I looked at your gallery and don't understand the small picture. It looks like you over-optimized it or used the thumbnail.  I fixed you profile to make your gallery link show under your name on the left of the posts, so it will be easier to find the pictures.  The one of the table in the room with the bad lighting is a big picture, I'll post it here.  

OH!  A lot of problems can be incurred by using special characters, spaces, or upper case in file names, like pictures.  You may notice that you have both.  That might be causing the problem.









fishpharmer

johnharvey, beautiful sweetgum table you built.  How long was the lumber dried before building with it?  Or any process taking to prepare the sweetgum for the table, thanks.
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johnharvey

I believe pineywoods said that it was air dried outdoors for over one year. I let it dry a little more in my shop. The only special thing I did with it was after I jointed one side of the board, I would wait a few days before I planed it to final thickness. The lumber warped quite a bit during drying, but was stable after jointing and planing.

John Harvey

pineywoods

FYI the sweetgum lumber John used to make that nice table was an experiment on my part. John was a willing accomplice. Sweet gum I have plenty of. The stuff is a weed, spreads quickly and grows fast. only use is some paper mills will take it for making low grade paper. It actually saws nicely. I got to wondering if something useful could be done with it. I quartersawed a big old butt cut into 1X4's and 1X6's stickered and stacked it in the shade, and put some old roofing tin over stack. Gave John the top half of the stack to see what he could do with it. A few pieces had some mild spalt and there are some color streaks. My experience sorta matches his, the stuff will warp, especially around knots, but once dry, it's fairly stable. It takes a stain very nicely. John, I presume you downsized and compressed your pics before uploading. There's a better way. Use the Jupload facility. It will automaticly resize and compress for optimum size, then upload to your gallery. You get a larger pic that way.

Oh, and the rest of that stack is still there if you want it.
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WDH

Sweetgum is one of the most beautifully figured domestic woods.  Your table is a beautiful example!
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SwampDonkey

Nice table John, and great teamwork behind the sweetgum selection. We don't have this wood up here in the far NE.
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