Parsons Rustic Dining Room Table
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Howdy! Greetings from San Antonio Texas. I’ve started making a Parsons style dining room table and need some advice. I’m using 2″ x 6″ x 60″ red oak.
Question: Will glue be enough to hold the boards together or will I need to do something else? I’ve attached pictures of the project I’m trying to imitate and of the boards I’m using.
Those boards have a lot of beautiful character. It’s going to be a lovely table. Assuming the tabletop boards are well-jointed, glue will be completely sufficient for holding the boards together. With the glue properly spread, long-grain to long-grain edge joints are stronger than the internal wood fiber adhesion. Watch the coffee table episode where Paul glues up the tabletop panel.
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Like Eric says above with todays glues and along the grain very strong using rubbed glue joint.
If you want to add extra strength you could also put a tongue about 1″ wide x 3/8″ thick to go into grooves on boards. Stop the tongue a few inches from end unless you want to show tongue as a feature.Dagenham, Essex, England
Yep, glue will do it. Tongue will work too. You also add a few dutchman as accents as well. They will draw the joint together and hold it there.
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I’ve glued it together and seems to be holding really well. Legs are next, then the cut out for the leg to fit, and finally the mortis and tenon skirt.
I’ve got the skirt and legs done and glued up. I’m surprised at how solid it is.
EDIT: For some reason the pictures are all flipped when they get posted. Oh well.
Top on and new final preparations for sealant. After a little research I settled on Vermont Natural Coatings POLYWHEY. Will let you know how it goes.
Very nice table Mexiquite. Where do you get your “reclaimed” wood? Local dump? construction sites? I would love to do some work using wood destined for the landfill…
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@pheasantww I bought the wood from a oil rig company that 2 extra pallets of oak that had been sitting out in the crazy Texas weather for a year or so.
Tell you what, this project has been tough since I’m not working with square boards since they are all warped and I can’t square them since I don’t want to remove the weathered part. However, this one is more fun than the chest of drawers I made.
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