another spalted maple table

 11/3/16 .. all in, all done .. ready to deliver early next week

see below for start to finish ...

the raw slab, marked out for cutting, above ..

10/28 .. first coat of finish on the top

the raw, sandblasted, water jet cut steel parts before polishing and the black patina ..

the legs have been blackened now, and we'll be putting it all together monday or tuesday ...

 this top is another slab table from the maple log i picked up recently ...

cutting it down to 93" to fit the space ... same base as the last one ...

it had some cracks and defects, and we'll be adding walnut butterflies to the large crack at the far end.

i missed a photo here where we had gone around all the cracks with green tape before we poured the 

clear epoxy fill .. you can just see one piece of tape that was left in the near right corner.

it's gray now from sanding, but the larger areas will be water clear when they are polished and finished.

it takes a couple pours, and this was the final one ... west systems epoxy ...

next !!

october 21 .. good to go ... off to boston tuesday ..

pretty crowded in the finish room .. hard to get a good photo

10/25  on site .. more room for a photo here in its new home

this is an interesting photography technique i've been noticing in more than one high fashion magazine ad .. rather then a tedious and quite time consuming photoshop backround cut, it's a fast, approximate cut that still dramatically isolates the image from what is sometimes a confusing background.

10/13/16

we shipped a 4' x 10' claro walnut slab table and 8 chairs last week, and this one 

will be ready to go by the end of next week ... it is the most popular size requested, +/- 42 wide by +/- 8 ' long.  luckily, our friends at goodhope hardwoods had a great slab on hand ..

 trevor flattened and smoothed it up with the power planer, and routed the bottom for the base.

the top is nearly finished and is just waiting for the base to be patinated
and attached before it gets its final topcoat ..

 the parts are drilled, tapped and assembled, and i hope we can start the patina process by monday ..

 the waterjetted parts.  it takes 'almost all day' to cut just one of the verticals ..

setting up to drill them on the drill press .. we have a system by now ...

updates to follow ...

Capital Letters

I stand corrected, if only for this particular blog post.
My Uncles have all passed on, but I would

be appalled to miscommunicate ANY information regarding
my friend Jack and his horse.

 I plan to use CAPITAL LETTERS for at least 

the next hour or two ... Beyond that, probably not so much.

Your friend,

Dan

a claro walnut update ... with chairs

 we'll be delivering the claro walnut table on thursday this week. 

for the full story on this table, including a chain sawing video, 

click this link

thanks to sandy sherman chair caning, for the danish cord seat weaving,
everything is ready to go and it all looks great!

10/7/16 ... on site now ... 

 

a small claro walnut slab coffee table

we wrapped up a small claro walnut slab coffee table this week

it's off to long island next week ...

cad drawing, and photo of the slab

it's got a steel base, same as this table, that we made last november, 

only without the 'squiggles' ...

it had some interesting features, like the unusual knot hole and a long,
thin crack that encouraged us to add 5 butterflies.



 
 before the finish

after the finish

 and before we started ... all for now .. we've got another claro slab dining table
in the works that should be finished sometime next week ...

the spalted maple dining table

 we delivered the spalted maple dining table today .. we've been working on it for a couple 

of weeks now, along with the coffee table in the previous post.  

luckily the elevator was of a generous size ..

here's it is in the shop

cad drawing with two base choices

in process .. the clients wanted some 'fairly straight', not crazy edges ..

close up of the figure and clear fill for the center hole

next up a couple of claro walnut projects ...

a spalted maple coffee table

we are wrapping up a spalted maple coffee table later today ...

i've had this piece on the wall of the finish room for about 10 years now, and surprisingly, the log stacked up in the first photo is from the same tree.  a locally renowned artist/woodcarver, porter brown, gave me the piece above and some other slabs before he died about 6 or seven years ago.  recently his daughter offered to sell me what was left, which is what you see in the top picture ... it went through hurricane irene and was covered by water and mud, but has dried out nicely in the last 5 years.  we've got a dining table that is nearly finished too and i'll post photos of that later this week.

i've got another coffee table slab left, and it's looking for a home ..

cad drawing

first coat of finish .. dramatic change

1.5 x 3" satin steel tube base by sam

i will post pictures of the finished table later ... in the meantime, here is a photo of two pieces i made about 10 years ago from the original slabs that porter gave me.