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<p>[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 340174, member: 54"]We want to use this nice table base for general purposes in the warehouse. This is basically how we got it in the “dumpster dive” I posted about a couple weeks ago. Table is something like 32” square. Helper added the oak blocks you see clamped on after Gorilla Glue applied. Helper loves GG and won’t use anything else on wood, I like it too, wonderfully strong stuff, easy to use. A real furniture restorer would have used wedges vice the blocks the helper used, but since it doesn’t matter to us and wedges require an extra cut, we left the wedges as blocks. We used non-ideal tools because the best tools are at another location and we just wanted to get this done today. I’m looking for an appropriate top, think I’ll try a maple butcher-block top from an older workbench, have to measure, it is in another place. That one has grey sheet-metal legs which I HATE! Dunno why but I’d just love any excuse to throw them out.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]114338[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]114339[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 340174, member: 54"]We want to use this nice table base for general purposes in the warehouse. This is basically how we got it in the “dumpster dive” I posted about a couple weeks ago. Table is something like 32” square. Helper added the oak blocks you see clamped on after Gorilla Glue applied. Helper loves GG and won’t use anything else on wood, I like it too, wonderfully strong stuff, easy to use. A real furniture restorer would have used wedges vice the blocks the helper used, but since it doesn’t matter to us and wedges require an extra cut, we left the wedges as blocks. We used non-ideal tools because the best tools are at another location and we just wanted to get this done today. I’m looking for an appropriate top, think I’ll try a maple butcher-block top from an older workbench, have to measure, it is in another place. That one has grey sheet-metal legs which I HATE! Dunno why but I’d just love any excuse to throw them out. [ATTACH=full]114338[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]114339[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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