Gridwork Table -- Some Morning Practice
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Just a little practice for me this morning. I think I'm starting to get the hang of it.
This is a table by Kevin Rodel which is featured in FWW221. I used a dragonfly tile from Motawi Tile for the center.
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Nice job, Dave:
It is always enjoyable to see your work. -
Thank you Tim.
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Ah, I read that article last week while having a cup of coffee at the grocery store. I really liked that table.
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Looks great Dave. Is that image straight out of sketchup?
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We're getting close to having a finished screen porch now and I've been thinking about some sort of little side tables to put out there. These might look nice in Garapa or Cambara with the cuffs made of Ipe.
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@slimdog said:
Looks great Dave. Is that image straight out of sketchup?
Thank you.
The edges are one of my line styles, the materials were applied in SU and the shadows are from SU. I ran the textured view without lines through FotoSketcher and then combined the result with the edges and shadows.
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Nice work Dave.
Just one gripe and it's just minor but I'm hard to please...
At the joints between the four panels there is an overlap that sticks out. All other outside edges are the reverse knife edge but at that location at the butt joint it would just be flat. I'd like to see the knife edge turn the corner but that would create a complicated joint. Also I'm the kind of duffass that would clip his leg on one of those overlapping joints and say some choice expletive.
Anyway give that joint some thought maybe there is nothing better to do but it did stick out to me as an issue.
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I just assumed that Dave had shown the 4 swastika top pieces not fully pushed into their final assembled places - as you can clearly see the tongues around the center medallion 'tile' that are waiting to take the grooves on the top-pieces' edges when they are nudged up tight...
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Phil, thank you.
As I said, this is a design by Kevin Rodel and it is drawn exactly as designed. The top pieces are in their final positions. Although it doesn't show in my drawing, there's a very small chamfer on the edges running toward the center. It's there in my drawing but the edges are hidden so they don't show. The table is only about 21" square at the top and it is intended as a side table. I wouldn't really consider the beveled edges a "knife edge" since the flat is 1/4 inch wide.
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You must have some collection of wood textures
Are they custom or commercial?
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That one is a custom material provided by a client. Can't share it, though. Sorry.
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As usual, excellent!
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I much prefer your version to the original [which I found a little disappointing after seeing yours!] - your 'wood' is much better [excellent textures as was said!].
The strange projecting edges on the 4 top pieces does jar.
I had assumed it slotted together around the central tile... but closer inspecting reveals there are no gaps to be closed up on the main meeting edges anyway.
If you remade it without these projections I would think it better.
If you really want to articulate the top panels more than is already achieved by the grain's direction then the join between panel could be slightly chamfered, as could the the leading edges to express the parts - but having them misaligned by this small amount looks like something a bodger like me does, intending them to be really be flush and not bothering to plane then to match !
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The phrase think outside the box became a watchword of creativity for designers and architects around the world, but as soon as somebody designs out side the box the conservatives gather round to beat the creative thinker into submission. I vote for this fine example of rotational symmetry. And Dave, just remember the Latin "illegitimus non carborundum."
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@Roger.
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