table leg & cable outlet

By FlorianMeigel
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BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
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Updated Fri Dec 08 2023

For those who are interested in wood-bending-techniques and alternative cable outlets made out of solid wood, I recently completed a Shaper Origin supported project. The base could also be used as a base frame for a piece of furniture and is conceivable in any other type of wood. Instead of the plastic version, I tried to design a simple outlet made of wood, which definitely enhances your office table optically.

50 min
Intermediate

128

Furniture

Files Included (7)

  • - short guidance -.pdf

    2 MB
  • cable-outlet-body bottom.svg

    1 kB
  • cable-outlet-body top.svg

    1 kB
  • Cable-outlet-hole.svg

    1 kB
  • cable-outlet-lid.svg

    813 B
  • Gluing aid corners.svg

    2 kB
  • Gluing template.svg

    714 B

Materials

13 layers of 0,9mm pine wood veneer stripes for the legs, to get a finished thickness of approx 12mm (length 2150mm and width 60mm) -> dimensions are already larger than the finished dimensions

cherry solid wood for the cable outlet (one board 350 × 75 × 20mm for four cable-outlet-bodies and one board 350 × 60 × 5 mm for four cable-outlet-lids)

some waste material for your templates

slow drying wood glue

"Complex" oil based surface coat or another surface finish of your choice

Tools

basic Handtools

+ clamps

Shaper Origin (+Workstation -> not mandatory) - standard router bits:

6mm spiral upcut router bit

8mm spiral upcut router bit

45 ° chamfer cutter without a guide ring

basic Tools to apply an oil based surface finish

a chop saw could help at some point

hand-held router with flattening cutter

hand-held circular saw with rail or a table saw as an alternative

Instructions

here´s a links for the surface finish I used: https://www.complex-farben.at/produkte/oele--wachse-innen I have attached a pdf to my files with a detailed description and photos of the manufacturing process. here is a link to my instagram account with more projects I did in the past: https://www.instagram.com/_meigel/ I look forward to any kind of feedback :D Have fun!


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