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Monday, February 10, 2014

another claro walnut slab coffee table

we finished another in our series of claro walnut coffee tables this week. it was a perfect slab for a coffee table and the rainbow leg from sams metal shop go perfectly with the color of the wood. click the photos to enlarge them

the raw slab

1.5 x 3" welded steel tubing

above is the bottom of the slab, below are a few other coffee tables from the past ...

from the dorset artists show last summer

the last coffee table slab i have on hand at the moment, though i have three new ones arriving sometime in the next two weeks

2009?

2009 .. blog post here

this one had a good story

from the art and industries show last summer

a big one to aspen

Monday, January 27, 2014

a claro walnut slab table

add another one to the list ... we sent this one to shelter island last week. and jim, who made the delivery, says that this table has the best view of any weve made. thats quite a tall statement, but he was there, and i wasnt, so ill have to take his word for it. anyway, we started with the slab above, and ended with the table below.

with a bit of back and forth in between.

do we cut of the swell? no .. its got some really cool grain going on there.

do we fill the cracks? yes, no, maybe, no ... we used this one as an inspiration. we made it in 2011 and didnt fill the cracks. never had a complaint. im glad we left them. in the end, they were really cool and kind of sculptural.. but how do we stabilize them? how about some butterflies on the bottom of the table, like below. that worked ..