Hayrake table, extended version.
Quarter view. Nevermind the boxes in the background!
This is a derivative from the FWW.com’s Hayrake table. However, my family needed a longer version with a table top amost 8′ long. Modifying the design was trivial in this case. This is my 3rd woodworking project, so a lot of learning was done during the process. Milling 8′ boards with a 6″ jointer wasn’t doable, so I had to make up a sled and square the stock on the tablesaw (it worked OK). All joinery is made by hand, the table top was a 5 hours (at least) of aerobic exercise with my No.5 handplane. The entire project is finished with Danish oil, and covered by many coats of polyurethane to protect the top (and a few coats for the stretcher).
I like to make my own design, but this time, the pre-made plan fitted very well what I wanted to do.
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Quarter view. Nevermind the boxes in the background!
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Details of the stretcher's joints.
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Some family member wanted gloss, other wanted clear. I shot for a middle ground.
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Ohter view of the joinery.
Comments
Great job! What kind of wood? Making your own design usually means you mis-measured somebody else's design. My tables are mostly as long as my shortest board.
Great job! There's a lot of fun joinery in the project and it looks like you nailed it all. I like the combination of maple and oak. Well done. -Mike
Thanks, I used maple for the stretcher and quatersawn oak for the top. We had our first supper on it today... awesome.
Michael, the videos were most useful. I was afraid that it would give too much away and it'd feel like repeating someone else's work, but it didn't. This was a great resource. Thanks!
Wow it is really beautiful
You can't really re-design the hayrake table. A table is a table is a table. But the hayrake is the thing that separates these lovely pieces from ordinary tables. There isn't a lot you cn do to make it different. You have used different timber than the traditional oak, but that's fair enough. They look the goods, and this one is a fine piece of woodworking. So well done CB.
I had considered using English Ash myself, but I finally decided on English Oak, for my copy of this table. Sourcing Two and a half inch planks, quarter-sawn is proving difficult, and I might have to go for a centre-board from a through sawn log.
My table will be seven foot by four and a half. Although, will probably use a number five and a half Jack plane! :)
Super work and again... Well done.
J
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