more like Habitwat circa 1982
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In the same way French Nobles were rewarded with the guillotine during the revolution?
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At least the guillotine could cut a clean edge.
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Meow!
Please not to dis Router Monkey’s skillz. (maybe he should have used a saw rather than a router, though 
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Let’s be fair, some black plastic edging and you could have a perfectly serviceable primary school table.
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Glue up complete and initial tung oil coat applied.
In the major tenon joint for the main vertical I made four 50mm long by 25 X 3 tabs, split slightly with taprred wedges. Undercut the mortice in corresponding positions so that when it was driven home the wedges opened up the tabs and locked the vertical element tight into the joint
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Are you going to make the matching cushion chairs?
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Beautiful, below is a picture taken in Nakashima’s workshop, notice the red glow from the bottom of the container. This always baffled me but I know realize what is happening; they are heat lamps that temporarily reduce the diameter of the spindle just before assembly. When shrunk, it is glued and fixed firmly into the seat; in time,the spindle will expand to its former diameter creating a non-loosening joint.
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Wonder how much he paid for the tree? The drawings show the top at 12ft x 12ft!
In 1984, Nakashima had the opportunity to buy an enormous American Walnut tree of extraordinary quality. At the time, he was running his own studio while recovering from an operation. One night, he had a vivid dream where the same walnut tree appeared before him “as a giant table, an altar for peace which would be an instrument of reconciliation, of bringing people together.” He saw this tree being made into multiple altars, one for each continent of the world
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I did once have a pic of his stash of wood, vast quantities. He deserved his success mind, original and good design is no easy matter.
I think he had one of his peace and reconciliation tables in the UN.
Absolutely this, this short film shows the wood store.
He and his Family’s story is eventful, this was all built from nothing after imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp in Idaho, starting in 1942. His daughter, Mira, found out indirectly that her mother basically had a mental breakdown while in the camp.
They were given two weeks to leave their home once the order came down from the federal government to report to camp.
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Absolutely beautiful Bob!
I love the tone and grain - is that elm? I’m sure you said up-thread somewhere…
Yea Elm and to answer another question someone had the butterfly’s aren’t right through, one cm deep in fact.
One thing became important making it and that was space. Narrow workshop at seven foot so needed a bit of rearranging.
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Mmmm… workshop porn 
Was going to be making a table from walnut and elm, not quite enough walnut on the width though. Solid oak, quarter sawn throughout, it is. Approx 60 X 36 X 28. First two planks to saw to size and flatten and square. More shavings…
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If that’d been mine the lighter marks would have turned out to be holes filled with woodworm dust … 
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VB
New project, log cabin…
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The kit just delivered from IKEA
