How would you make........

legs for this slab that looks like a shamrock.....sort of. I think that the slab would be about two or three inches, it's white pine.

 

4 shaleles for legs.

That's pretty cool. Stain it green maybe?

 

4 straight pine branches with bark on or peeled off. Tenon cutter dowel ends and pine branch stretchers between the legs. Just my .02.

Something like this?

 

Personally I'd find a pine stump with root flares. Dig around stump with backhoe. Cut as low as possible. Peel bark. Drill stump to accept dowels on top, and slab on bottom to match dowel pattern. Done. Sit it flare side towards the floor.

 

single pedestal with a bell flare at the bottom, like a stem

 

What's the diameter? How high do you want it to be (coffee table or high-top bar table)?

 

how you gonna keep that thing from checking?

 

You can't.

 

You can-ish
White pine drys really fast. A cookie 3-4 inches thick is going to not only check but slpit, probably into peices.

It would need to be treated as soon as it was cut.
Over sizing it's thickness would help too. Not just for stability but to give some extra material to mill out flaws/checks.

 

thats what i thought....i had some fairly thick white pine cookies and they break

 

You can slow it down, but you can't fully stop it. I would like it do what it wants naturally and put in some bow-ties to stabilize it.

 

Lots of good ideas, I'll have to get a bigger saw ready and then make my mind up what we'll do with it.

 

I'll get the size for you tomorrow.

 

The wife just wants it cut to a certain height so we can make it a big azz seat to sit on outside.