Hi, I've recently purchased a newly made oak table from a local carpenter, Two of the planks of oak appear to be moving a lot more than the others, I've been told carpenters use biscuit joints to prevent to much movement in tables etc, I don't believe the biscuit joint has been used in my table, Can anyone tell me if this is excessive movement in the table or normal, Should I return to the carpenter and complain? Can I do anything to stop it getting worse?
Can you add an image from the top too. Normally you would reverse the grain direction to stabilise. It does not look like it's been jointed very well Finally, are you sure it's oak? Hence my request for a top view
I await his views on the subject. On the subject of the table its pretty basic construction and those ends were never going to stay level.
It looks like its come from the shabby chic brigade, buy some nasty old table, paint it up, stain some pine dark oak and het presto an oak table to the unsuspecting joe public. Defo stained up softwood, hope you didn't pay too much for it
Jesus I've had another look at it just now and the gaps have got bigger, I can see the light wood, as you guys call it (pine)they sold it to me as being oak!
You sure about that gb, its as rough as a badgers. A well made scrubbed pine top can be worth a bit of money but thats about £20 worth of joists thrown together, great for the garden