new spalted maple coffee table for sale

we've got a new spalted maple coffee for sale in the local

art manchester gallery

along with our other stuff there.  the show runs through columbus day weekend and you can see the
work of over 30 talented vermont artists ... friday,saturday and sunday through 10/8 ..

i will be sitting in the gallery on sunday the 8th.  stop in and 'say hi if you are in town

this is the third one of three from that log cut by my friend porter brown

back in the 90s .. he gave me several pieces from it, and after he died, 

i was able to purchase some of the pieces he left behind from his daughter last year

this one was almost 4" thick when we started, but ...

the flattening process took almost an inch off it .. that hardmaple

sure likes to move around when it's drying

anyway, i'm pretty please with how it came out, and it is completely

au naturel, no fill in the cracks, just a scraped, sanded and finished 

piece of beautiful spalted maple

r.i.p. porter brown .... one of the greats ..

art manchester!  across from the equinox hotel, manchester  village

lots to see there ...

Slices of Maple Coffee Table

We made this table for Open Studio this year. ( See post below) We usually try to have at least one thing kind of out of the ordinary for people to see. I bought the slices at a local tag sale about 3 or 4 years ago for not a lot of money, stuck them in the basement of my shop and waited for them to dry. They had the matching splits when I got them and, while they got a little wider, they didn't change all that much. The slices came from a branch of what was, at the time, the largest registered silver maple in Vermont. According to my neighbor's daughter, this branch had 77 growth rings. When I asked Betsy, from whom I bought the slabs, why she didn't have any slices from the trunk she said they would have been 'too big'. I bet .... Anyway, we milled them flat on the CNC, belt sanded them smooth, shuffled them around til they fit, made a quick model, gathered some pieces of firewood, cut some notches out of that, welded up a steel connector piece and finished the finish just as people were coming in the driveway... It turned out to be a good conversation starter. However, it didn't sell at the show and now it's looking for a new home. Contact me directly for a price ....Click the photos to enlarge

The two slices in the raw with the chain saw marks

Shuffling for the 'fit'

The slabs and the model

Close up of the model ... photo glued to 1/2" mdf and cut to shape

Slightly fuzzy picture of the finished table
+/- 54" x 30" x 17" high