Well after much time spent making sure these joints were a nice fit, I decided I don't want them coming apart ever again. Because of the way I sawed the lumber for the legs (quarter sawn; center cut from the same log), I was able to arrange the parts with a "flatsawn" side, and a "quartersawn" side. I think you'd have a real hard time doing something like that if you're not making your own lumber. Just about ready for some finish: I've nicknamed them - "the woman", and "the wizard".
Nice work. Fine craftsmanship on those two. I think anything served on those tables will taste better than on a regular table!
What more can I really say!!! Just like every other aspect of your being, these are first-class. I wouldn't expect anything else from you. Impeccable. Can't wait to see them installed in their permanent home!
Lookin great! I just found this...thought I'd drop it here for a lil inspiration for your next project
Let's just hope some "A~hole" doesn't carve their name in the wooden table top. My solution to issues like that is to top the table with glass. I have it on my coffee table and end tables.
You got that right. The person responsible would have a whole lotta pizzed off hoarders to deal with.
With the glass top, my furniture looks as new as the day it came into our home. Spills, kids playing on the coffee table etc. wipes right up and no destruction.
Hey, I had a girlfriend right after high school that carved her name in the inner door panel of my truck...I didn't see it until she was history...I was PIZZED! If she wasn't already gone, she would have been then! Everytime I went out with somebody new after that I had to explain why I had this girls name was "engraved" in my door!
I've always liked glass tops too. And cast iron bases. I have a nice old Singer sewing machine base I'd like to do something with eventually. The graffiti thing has worried me a bit. The rest of the tables in there are covered in it. They have these round bar height tables, topped with dimensional 2x6 or 2x8 material on heavy cast iron bases. Hopefully those will provide enough creative outlet for the Banksy-wannabes and my tables will be spared. If any vandals are caught, and I can resist carving my initials into their face, I think the punishment ought to be resurfacing that thing with hand planes and sandpaper.
My friend who is an accomplished architect, always has said to me that, it is human nature to like items that are made of a combination of the 4 main building materials. Those being wood, steel, glass and stone. When you add glass to a wood table it becomes more interesting. Or adding steel to a wood table or glass to a steel table. That is why many of us like that log / glass table. I think you can add up to three of the main building materials then it gets too busy. Not sure just what I think.
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Greg asked me about that stuff too but Im not too sure about it. I don't think it will move with the wood. They have an outdoor bar there too with a pavilion for the volleyball courts, and this spring they had a couple of new probably Pinterest inspired tables out there. The tops were covered with beer caps and encased in epoxy, but the backing was some green box store dimensional lumber and by the end of volleyball season most of them had cracked, leaving razor sharp edges in the epoxy.
