And the Three shall become One.

Like Ed says, "It's architectural."  And that it is.  Big, burly, all angles…where you want to be under during the big earthquake.  It's going to be bombproof.

Fourteen more mortises to be cut, some large miter joints and four 40" sliding dovetails to go.  I'm hoping Ed talks me out of the miters.

Stretcher to Leg Assembly

To attach the stretcher to leg I used a through wedged mortise and tenon.  The tenons were approx 2X 4" long and I hammered and glued in a couple 5/16-3/8" wide wedges per joint.

In a bout of mild insanity I decided I should stand up the assembly for the wedges to be driven home.  First photo is the assembly in the leg vise.

Fitting the stretchers

I guess these are bird's mouth joints.  Double bird's mouth joints.  Strangely enough, or it is to me, these 3x8's are really out of square.  I'm shying away from squaring them up for they have a lot of grit, tiny rocks, staples and nails in them.  I check them over and scrape with a cabinet scraper but I still don't want to run them through the jointer.
So the joinery takes some final fiddling with to get things matching up.

Pegs

I don't trust the glue so adding redundancy to everything.  Pounding in pegs where I can.

Reclaimed Wood Table supermini update #2

The photography jobs have gotten in the way of working on this full time.
These cross members are for the most part done.  Up next will be the stretchers and braces.
Planning on those to be the last remaining 3"X8"s and joining with old post and beam barn joints.

Reclaimed Wood Table supermini update

See the initial post here.
A very short entry here so the other ones don't become too wordy.

Using the enigmatic machine outta England, the WoodRat, to cut a precise template for the mortises for the crosspieces of the base.  If you're a woodworker and you haven't heard of the WoodRat, it's, in my mind, an essential tool if you are the type that uses power tools.  An infinitely adjustable tool that can accomplish such a wide range of things quickly and precisely.  My real go-to jig for so many things.

The crosspieces cut along with the central mortise.  Right now they're rounded but will square them off in the next step.

And checking stuff against the full sized drawing of the side of the table.

Desayuno in Greenfield

I figured I needed a good breakfast for what I was about to do so I headed into the older section of Greenfield, California looking for a good spot.  My normal place for lunch was closed but "Martinez Tortilleria y Panaderia" on El Camino Real was open and they have a little eating spot attached to it as well.
Maybe 8 tables, I was the only one there.

A woman comes over with her pad and says something in Spanish.
I look/stare at her trying to translate.
She smiles and says "Poquito Espanol?"
"Si, poquito"
And I proceed to order some huevos con chorizo y agua no hielo por favor.  Maiz tortillas.

Pretty soon it arrives and she starts giving me the corn tortillas.  Fresh made.  She's making them for me a few feet away.  A bottomless plate of them it seems for as soon as I finish with the few she trots over some more.  Big smile on her face.

Eventually I say "No mas."

I'm down early in the morning in the farming town of Greenfield picking up some timber that's been ripped out of a building that a winery purchased.  Jeff, the top guy at the winery, called me up wondering if I wanted to repurpose the timbers into a 16' outdoor table for their tasting room grounds.

They were long, they were heavy.

Agapito, the vineyard manager, sees me from far off and comes over to say hi.  I start to tie the lumber down and he takes over.  Says "I just love tying down loads."

Will post up pics as the table comes together.