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Dining room table build update:
Legs are done. Picked up the 40X84X2 Pecan slab at the mill where I had it planed and rough sanded. I joined the three slabs with biscuits and glue and epoxyed the checks and blemishes. It looked like a shit show, so bad I took zero pics. Took it a few weeks ago and got it back today and it looks amazing.
Tonight and tomorrow is sand sand sand and locate and install nutserts to fasten top to base. Only problem is the top is right at 200lbs and 40" wide so flipping it by myself is not feasible. So, I have to work on my son in laws schedule. Anyway here are pics and the Pecan wood looks amazing.

Legs

Leg and top

Close up of Pecan wood!
My wife is excited, and I am right at the edge of running out of talent on this project. It's getting close to needing fine furniture making talent and I think my talent tank is too small lol. Enjoy!

 

@Delta09

 

Will do

 

Looks great, very good job

 

Thanks! I have even put the tape measure away and broke out the Lufkin folding rule to be more precise. Using a marking knife instead of a pencil.

 

Are you using plans for this?

 

No. This is just from my head. I made a sketch, googled typical height, width and length of a typical table and started cutting.

 

Awesome sauce!

 

I have never had any luck with that style of anchor -- unless you consider using them to make a hole for a toggle bolt lucky...

 

All right!
Great memory

 

I use the metal ones with good results

 

Looking sharp - I think your talent tank has the reserve to finish the job.

 

For this application, the drywall will be the weak point, not the anchor, so I'm not worried about it.

Once I drilled out the hole a bit, the anchors all went in fine.

All of the rods are up but my wife needs to hem the curtains for the patio door. We also ordered another set of the sheer panels so I'll have to do some regrouping with taking rods down to add them.

It is amazing how different the room looks now.

 

Dining Room Table Top Update:
So I saved this part for last because it involves opinion and "feelings."
One side live edge is really buggy, which is fine. Pecan trees always have a lot of bugs under their bark. I decided to leave it sorta buggy, so you can still see the trails, just a lot fainter. I like to leave live edge as original as possible but not to the point of being unattractive just for authentic sake. So, here is what I am doing now:

 

It's gonna look great!

 

I think knocked down but still leaving that character is the right call.

 

@Delta09

 

Well fellers, today was the day - the oil furnace installed in 1969 is coming out.

Welcome to hell, or at least heck.



The principal problem (for me) is that the floor joists are 5 foot 3-3/4 inches off the floor - for reference I'm 5'11".

The wildlife.



The furnace is massive, way oversized for the house - 175,000 BTU input.



These things are like erector sets - just put together with zip screws. They come apart the same way, just with more grunting & swearing.

 

You getting rid of oil furnace? Or getting new replacement

 

Thats going to look good, once done. Like the live edge, it gives a good conversation topic.