Bonsai Nut
Nuttier than your average Nut
Al, absolutely no disrespect was ever intended in my comments. If you took my comments as being disrespectful, I apologize. One of my pet peeves today is that there are very few craftsmen left. I was in no way trying to diminish your level of craftsmanship. It is just a fact that making two tables at once takes less time than making two tables separately - all details and worksmanship included.
I recently finished a project at my house with a custom stone fascade. I cut and laid all the stones by hand. Would it have been faster to use artificial stone, or stone panels, or use a wet saw? Heck yes. But in my opinion nothing looks like real stone that has been hand cut. It took me over one hour per square foot of facing - DAYS to finish. And this was on a curved wall - which I know you understand how much more difficult it is to frame and finish curves than flat surfaces. Now that it is finished I get a million compliments. Everyone asks me "how did you get it to look like that". My response: "time". If there was ANY way that I knew to make the work go faster without affecting the quality of the outcome, I certainly would have used it, however.
Now when you place that elevated top on the table frame with dowels, you can measure all those dowels by hand (a lengthy task and very difficult to do 100% accurately) or use a dowel jig. Will either method effect the outcome of the table? I find it hard to believe so. That was the point that I was trying to make - NOT that you should reduce your quality one iota.
Regardless, for some reason my suggestions or thoughts of help were not taken as being either respectful or helpful. You may have even already considered all my suggestions and discounted them some time ago for reasons that I am not aware of. Please ignore them and continue with the thread. I enjoy seeing fine work done, and appreciate the time you are taking to share your work with everyone here.
I recently finished a project at my house with a custom stone fascade. I cut and laid all the stones by hand. Would it have been faster to use artificial stone, or stone panels, or use a wet saw? Heck yes. But in my opinion nothing looks like real stone that has been hand cut. It took me over one hour per square foot of facing - DAYS to finish. And this was on a curved wall - which I know you understand how much more difficult it is to frame and finish curves than flat surfaces. Now that it is finished I get a million compliments. Everyone asks me "how did you get it to look like that". My response: "time". If there was ANY way that I knew to make the work go faster without affecting the quality of the outcome, I certainly would have used it, however.
Now when you place that elevated top on the table frame with dowels, you can measure all those dowels by hand (a lengthy task and very difficult to do 100% accurately) or use a dowel jig. Will either method effect the outcome of the table? I find it hard to believe so. That was the point that I was trying to make - NOT that you should reduce your quality one iota.
Regardless, for some reason my suggestions or thoughts of help were not taken as being either respectful or helpful. You may have even already considered all my suggestions and discounted them some time ago for reasons that I am not aware of. Please ignore them and continue with the thread. I enjoy seeing fine work done, and appreciate the time you are taking to share your work with everyone here.
I also think there is a big difference between making ten stands and mass-producing stands.
