Huge tabletop

[benbound]

Any ideas what I can do with this tabeltop. Cut from atlas cedar its about 9' long and 5 1/2 feet wide. Cut from a really gnarly lump of timber and has a lovely grain. The farmer that I rent a yard off wants to make a rustic table for his garden. It was felled last December and milled this week

 

Cheers

[sawmonkey]

Table sounds good. Just keep it simple and chunky otherwise I think it'd be spoilt.

4 legs, 4inch square mortised in

[se7enthdevil]

a table sound just the job however i'd be tempted to go for 6-8" legs considering the size of the top. 4" legs may look spindly and lost but it depends what the customer wants.

 

lets see some pics when its done...

 

 

 

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[sawmonkey]

You're prob right about going chunkier legs, easiest way to tell is hold few lumps of 4x2 (bound to be some old scrap bits laying about) against the slab and add/ take away bits until everyone is happy. Won't take long and won't cost anything more than 20min (which you could be sipping on a brew while doing)

[benbound]

Good suggestion! 25 degrees in the shade today

[peatff]

Put a couple of decent stumps under it for legs make it look like it grew there.

[Maxwell]

I believe 4 legs would ruin this completely. Id suggest two wide legs, one at ether end, spanning the width of the top. Lovely piece of wood there.

 

Just my opinion though

[timbernut]

Hi there, new to the arbtalk, lovely chunk o wood! How about 3 slightly crooked legs in the round?

[Triassic]

9' long and 5 1/2 feet wide. Cut from a really gnarly lump of timber

Cheers

What did you use to mill something that wide?

[Bren.]

I'd go for three legs myself.