coffee tables

i was working with a client recently who was looking for a spalted maple 

coffee table ... i had three pieces left from a log i bought from 

a local guy about 5 years ago.  we did a quick sand on them and

met with the client, who decided they were a little large for her ...

 i had these walnut legs from a previous table,  below,

bought by a client who had me change that table's legs to metal

 so when the current client selected another smaller slab, i finished up 

one of the three above and it is in the top two photos, ready to go ... about 23 x 64 x 16 high.

for a price on that one, please call or email 

802-379-1478, or dan@dorsetcustomfurniture.com

and these other two slabs are still available

and then, as i cruise the shop, other possibilities appear, like the one above,

one of three irregular pieces of claro walnut, drops from recent tables we have made

the one above can go as is, or be made into an oval +/- 28 x 45, maybe a little larger ..

or this one could be a round coffee or center table, maybe 32" in diameter

and then a live edge table about 48" long by 30 to 34" wide

small dining or coffee table ..

also available is this 'and now for something completely different' white oak coffee table ..

the slab had some non removeable sticker burns which i had to paint somehow to hide.  

inspired by a david smith show at the clark art museum

it's been around for a while 

and can be seen, along with the one below at the ellenbogen gallery

in manchester, vermont, next to the price chopper ...

nice grain in this one

and the one above is in my office, but i'd be willing to part with it 

in order to make something new

and last, but not least, this is a piece of very highly figured claro

that would make an interesting console table with a metal base

and the grain running the short way, which is atypical ...

i remember this slab as having really spectacular figure.

that about wraps it up for today ... call to chat about any of these ...

no reasonable offer refused ...

my apologies about the formatting in this post ..
blogger seems to have changed something and i am out of the loop

Accidental Art ... While I Was Working II

You just never know what's coming next .... I picked this up outside the finish room last week, propped it up on top of the electric meter and gave it a name .... 'My Four Best Friends' ... it's actually a piece of plywood Trevor put down under some frames that he sprayed black before he put speaker cloth on them. We all liked it .... David Smith made a number of paintings by arranging steel scraps on paper and spray painting them ... I've seen some of them in person and they're very cool.

Later that week, while trying to get a 'natural' edge on a seat plank for a stool I'm fooling around with, some really fine shavings came of the process. You need a sharp slick and a consistent 'push' but the pine shavings curl up into amazing shapes ... Click the pictures to enlarge them and have at it yourself .. You might be able to get the same result with your largest chisel and judicious use of a mallet.

'How do it know?'

I've got these long pieces of curved ash I want to make into a sculpture of some sort ... the details are simmering ... waiting for that 'lightning bolt' to strike ...