• So I've become a bit obsessed with woodworking over the last 6 months, but have only worked with mdf, plywood and oak so far. I fancy making a TV console table for my dad out of walnut veener mdf and solid walnut for the legs as he really likes darker woods. It's bloody expensive stuff though so want to make sure I don't cock up my cuts. Is walnut hard to work with? (relative to oak) I need to rip a 44mm thick walnut board into various sizes on my table saw, and am thinking of upgrading the blade for the job. Would a 24T work better than my current 60T?

  • Check out four eyes furniture on YouTube. He seems to pretty much use walnut or ply exclusively so will probably have some good tips. Pretty sure he made a nice tv console table recently, you can get the sketch up files for design ideas.

    This is the one I was thinking of: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FJZpus9agjU

  • Ha, I'm literally combining bits of 3 of his builds together for my purposes. Good tip, I never thought to look what kind of blade he uses.

    I was getting burn marks when ripping oak recently. I suspect I should be using less teeth for rips.

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