Wood Slab Table

[TrollSpiel]

I expect I'll be more expensive than some of the others as you have come directly to the people milling the wood.

 

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I'm not so sure on the price thing ;-) I mill it, dry it, build & finish it - and to whatever style & spec you'd like.

 

sounds like game on for a sale round here ;-)

[MaverickGR]

Don't mean anything by it but as I don't mill my own wood I imagine this guy is probably going to get more wood for his money buying direct from one of you guys than me.

[Mike Dempsey]

There's a lot more to making a table than just attaching a large slice of a tree to some legs, slapping some oil/varnish on it and hoping it will be ok!

 

Some of the factors to be taken into account include following, but it is not an exhaustive list.

 

Timber type; colour, hardness, stability

 

design; what are the customer's preferences or do they have any

 

size; how many people is it to accommodate, does the customer want it to be extending for special occasions such as Christmas day?

 

finish; does the customer want a bombproof finish or are they happy to give it a coat of oil every 6 months (its amazing the damage that can be caused to an oil type finish by a plate of spaghetti!)

 

does the table have to match in with or furniture in the house ie timber type, design or finish. Is the customer willing to give the designer/maker a free reign or will they insist on certain aspects to be included?

 

what kind of warranty will be given, after all it is a big item purchase and has to be 'fit for purpose' as well as look nice.

 

As someone who deals with these kind of issues on a day to day basis as a furniture designer/maker you have to be prepared to 'educate' your clients and be ready to back up your claims with evidence.

Whilst I dont want to be a devil's advocate, I wouldn't be happy spending well over £1000 plus on a piece of furniture which I would want to be the centre piece of my house with an unqualified and untested person who called themself a furniture maker. (anyone can, it's not against the law) There's a massive chasm between knocking up a coffee table with a nice plank for your own house where everyone will say that its nice regardless, and designing and making a centre piece for someone paying hard earned cash who wont be afraid to say that they dont like it or coming back to you in 3 months time complaining that it has warped and split of fallen apart!

 

just my penny's worth

 

Mike

[treewizard]

RobD how do you get those tables so smooth??

[TrollSpiel]

, I wouldn't be happy spending well over £1000 plus on a piece of furniture which I would want to be the centre piece of my house with an unqualified and untested person who called themself a furniture maker. (anyone can, it's not against the law)

 

 

Mike

 

well you know, with that 3 & a half grand bedroom cabinet I put in my customers house, in that 5mill conversion.... ok, i didnt mill the timber but yada yada - i guess they'd say I could chalk up as a furniture maker 'wink'

 

& you know what son, just cos some might bash a few boards together, slap on a bit of muck, it makes them no less of a furniture maker than a man who knocks out flawless marquetry under a french polish that looks like god himself put it there - just in case that's you?!

 

& that's my pennys' worth !

Edited September 14, 2011 by TrollSpiel

[vinnie_chip]

cstellin

 

how about something like this? Oak, 2" thick. that top is one of the smaller ones @ 1.8m x 101cm at its widest.

 

legs, any timber style you like. ( i have a pal who bends inch perspex for table legs )

 

as with the finish. though my preference would be a wet looking water clear sprayed lacquer, very hard - not polished to a too high gloss or you'll see every scratch.

 

I have 6 of those tops, plus many others, bigger, smaller, lots of different woods. You can come and pick your own board if you like & then wait 3 weeks for me to build & finish it. hi, do you have anymore slabs like this? cheers, vinnie

 

Just outside london, can deliver, or collect.

hi, do you have anymore boards like this? cheers, vinnie

[Copford sawmill sussex]

goid, needs a bit of work but we have plenty of oak this size we have elm yew and ash slab bed but like people have said above these will all need finishing