A couple months ago I bought two sugar maple natural edge flitches with a f ew defects. Filled with West System epoxy. I decided to use a piece of wa lnut to marry the two. Finished with two coats of Watco natural and four c oats of Minwax polycrilic. Trestle build with 6/4 hard maple.
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Thanks for the tips on the West System and Minwax.
Larry
Very Nice
Good looking table. The finish really brings out the nice grain.
few defects. Filled with West System epoxy. I decided to use a piece of walnut to marry the two. Finished with two coats of Watco natural and four coats of Minwax polycrilic. Trestle build with 6/4 hard maple.
I like it. Good job.
If I may, you might consider putting a Dutchman on the underside, spanning any suspect defect - crack or split. I put one on the underside of my waln ut table, at just such suspect crack, and used the West System epoxy for th e adhesive.
And on this cedar table top -
Sonny
few defects. Filled with West System epoxy. I decided to use a piece of walnut to marry the two. Finished with two coats of Watco natural and four coats of Minwax polycrilic. Trestle build with 6/4 hard maple.
Looks great!
Very fine indeed! I particularly like the way the walnut is echoed in the leg of the table.
Cheers, Colin
Very nice Larry.I like it a lot
That is so beautiful. Something to be proud of.
Wow< that looks great! On one end it looks like the walnut is sitting in a couple of rabbets. On the other it look like it sits in a grove. Was that your artistic way of dealing with a rough edge both sides of the maple tops?
And how much did the crane cost to rent to drop that thing in place? ;~)
"Gramps' shop" was heard to mutter:
Very nice table. I have plans for a similar table that I have been wanting to build for a few years. Thanks for sharing and the added inspiration.
I am particularly impressed by the fact you accomplished this level of craftsmanship with tools readily available to the average home woodworker without overcompensating. Great job!
Thanks, Leon. I puzzled for a bit on how to marry the slabs. Rabbets seemed the easiest solution. Shop is in the basement. Wife helped me bring it upstairs. Trestle first then the top. Better than a treadmill stress test!
Wife (^5) gets half the project credit. You have to prepare dinner for her.
Sonny
Gorgeous top! I really like the light sheen, and think the walnut strip do wn the middle adds a lot of personal character.
And the table actually looks really usable! I have seen more trestle table s than I can count that have large tops and the legs look like bridge abutm ents, with very little leg space left underneath them, and then the base of the legs wind up as foot rests with all the finish scraped off of them in a few months.
Those look very well proportioned.
Very nice job. Bet the wife is thrilled.
Robert
Absolutely gorgeous.
But...
"she really had no choice but to exclaim she liked it
she was put on the spot"
;-)
You sure do make a bold statement with your wood working. Very nice!
Awesome table Larry, I like how you married the two halves. Very clean.
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