coffee table

[RC0]

Anyone ever have a go at making something from a tree they’d felled.

 

Here was my sole effort, the wood part took me forever.

 

The legs, which are attached to a steel frame underneath were made from rods that I bent around a large tube.

 

The feet were cuts from a large solid bar.

 

The whole thing is real heavy but solid as a rock.

 

All in all, I think its ok.

[bob]

looks like it was worth the effort

my kitchen floor was a nice oak dissmantle that i had planked dried tounged and grooved for the guy keeping the rest of the timber and its my pride and joy

[Mr Ed]

Nice one reg. I have 2 pieces of burr Elm with the same plan in mind.

Here's what I did with some other Elms I felled -

[RC0]

Fanstatic Ed, I especially like the look of the piece to the right of the cooker.

[tockmal]

I did this in art school as part of a project.

 

 

 

 

Great work Reg and Ed.

[Steve Bullman]

u having us on again tim?

[MasterBlaster]

All in all, I think its ok.

 

OK, my ass! You could sell that sucker for big bucks, and that's no shat!

[MattyF]

Im like eds kitchen! RCO thats a real nice peice of timber!not to sure about the metal fittings but i wouldnt mind it in my home.....my parents have somthing very simular from burred maple but i like the darker colour of your table more.

[BrendonV]

Thats great looking!

 

I like the mix of metal and wood.

[PeteB]

At the North Wales Woodfair in North Wales (St Asaph) a couple of years ago I watched a guy carve a womans torso out of a chunk. He explained that while he was doing(!) the rear a brown stain appeared inappropiately and he sweated hoping that it would go when he got to the final proportions. It did and the redult was A1. My only attempt at carving made a rabbit look like a rat!

I once planned to turn a Leb Cedar (1852 acording to records) into "furntiture" ended in ashes when some scrotum set fire to the shed!. It had been there fully slatted for four years waiting a house big enough to have a big kitchen table. B+#~ar£!