Snack Table build, completion

There was very little left to do on my snack tables.  It is a lot easier to apply finish, though, before putting them completely together.

 

Color

During what I think of as my first woodworking period (1992 through about 2002), I tended to favor lighter colors.  My most-used stain was Minwax Golden Oak, an oil-based stain which I used on almost everything made of oak, which was most of the things I made back then.  This preference came largely from a desire to see the grain — dark-colored stains, at least the ones I’d tried, tended to hide the grain rather than highlight it.

For the snack tables, though, I wanted a dark look, and thanks to some recent experimentation I knew how to get it without obscuring that beautiful quarter-sawn grain.  I reached for my TransTint Dark Brown Mahogany aniline dye and mixed up a quart using alcohol as the solvent.  Since I’d given myself a lot of tight corners, nooks and crannies to deal with I applied the dye with a foam brush and wiped it with a cloth to get the color nice and even.

The dye worked exactly as I wanted it to, highlighting the ray flecks and giving the piece a nice, rich color.  And by applying it now, before adding hardware or joining the top to its braces, I can be sure there won’t be any light-colored lines in impossible-to-reach places to spoil the look.

 

Completion

After the dye was fully dry I attached the tops to the sliding supports and applied 3-4 coats of Arm-R-Seal to all of the subassemblies, giving it a couple of days to really harden (translation: it was Sunday night when I finished).

Next, I attached the aluminum T-tracks into the slots in the sliding supports.  The tracks are 1/2 inch deep, so there wasn’t room to screw them into the 3/4 inch plywood; instead I used a polyurethane construction adhesive, which needed 24 hours to cure, and clamped them in place to hold them.
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Once the adhesive was fully cured the rest was easy:  I cut off the excess T-track (my pieces were 24 inches long and I only needed 18) with a hacksaw and fitted the sliding support into the base.  I marked a point 1-1/2 inches down and centered on the track, then drilled a 5/16 through hole in that spot.  I slipped a 1/4-inch x 1-1/2 inch hex bolt into that hole from behind, put a washer and a threaded knob on the front, and slid the top assembly home to complete each table.

Here they are, in front of my family room sofa:

And, for grins, here they are again.  The left one is at the lowest height (21 inches) and the right one is cranked up to 36 inches:

It was nice working with oak again.  I’m actually glad I got the quartersawn stock, because the tops are so pretty.  Now I can clean up shop and start working on a Christmas gift for my daughter Sarah.

 

 

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