My table pics...

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I am going to start posting table pics as I do them. No matter what size or brand I will try to take pics of as many as possible . Just want to share them with you guys. Today's table 8' Brunswick Mahagony Shorewood, Purple Titan cloth. Start your own collection today!

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I use good ol Elmer's for the shims on the cross braces only so they dont back out and cause the joint to fail. I also use it on the slate joints, I have followed alot of guys that use super glue the way Brunswick teaches and it's just too hard on the joints for me to use and feel good about it.

I lay a 16th of an inch bead halfway high and all the way across the joint. It gives you about 15 mins to get the slates where you want them before it sets up every bit as good as superglue does, and when you take it apart you dont damage the slates at all.
 
Thursday's table/ postponed, Friday's table/postponed, Today's table 8' Brunswick Chestnut Sheldon, Midnight Blue Cenntenial cloth.

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Chris Long's UVA jersey
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When leveling the table beyond the frame as seen here and now on the slates I am curious why you are still using carpenter levels with the machinist level on top? Carpenter levels are not made as well as your machinist level. In fact, if you turn the machinist level around on top of the carpenter level it should read the same but if you turn the carpenter level around it may not. Unless you have checked your carpenter level with a caliper you are probably getting a false reading. There is no easy way to calibrate a carpenter level since it has no adjustments.

Recently I heard that a Diamond mechanic used 30 machinist levels on one table setting them up in a Tournament in NY, anyone else hear of this?
 
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When leveling the table beyond the frame as seen here and now on the slates I am curious why you are still using carpenter levels with the machinist level on top? Carpenter levels are not made as well as your machinist level. In fact, if you turn the machinist level around on top of the carpenter level it should read the same but if you turn the carpenter level around it may not. Unless you have checked your carpenter level with a caliper you are probably getting a false reading. There is no easy way to calibrate a carpenter level since it has no adjustments.

Recently I heard that a Diamond mechanic used 30 machinist levels on one table setting them up in a Tournament in NY, anyone else hear of this?
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Yes, Diamond does used several levels. This is for the 1 piece slates with the built in leveling system. This is not required but does speed up the process.
 
They do read the same when you turn them around,they are machined on the top and the bottom, which makes them 24 in machinists levels. I must be doing something right I havent had to re-level a table yet this year, or last year now that I think about it.
 
Not questioning your work, what is the tolerance that they were machined? Might be nice to have those.
 
I dont remember the tolerances offhand. I do need to get new ones because these are getting worn from checking for hi-low spots on the slates with them. I do know that when I level all 4 sides like you see in the pic and once all 4 sides are perfect I can place the my level combo any where on the slates and they are the same level.

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that you were questioning my work. I was just trying to state the fact that my customers are happy with my leveling system.
 
OTLB said:
When leveling the table beyond the frame as seen here and now on the slates I am curious why you are still using carpenter levels with the machinist level on top? Carpenter levels are not made as well as your machinist level. In fact, if you turn the machinist level around on top of the carpenter level it should read the same but if you turn the carpenter level around it may not. Unless you have checked your carpenter level with a caliper you are probably getting a false reading. There is no easy way to calibrate a carpenter level since it has no adjustments.

Recently I heard that a Diamond mechanic used 30 machinist levels on one table setting them up in a Tournament in NY, anyone else hear of this?
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I wonder where Diamond got that idea from;) All the ProAms go through the multi-leveling process before they're shipped out for delivery;)

Glen

PS. The mechanic you heard about would have more than likely been Paul Smith with Diamond:smile:
 
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