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Tex Brufer
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03/10/2015 2:32 am  

In preparing for the rainy New England weekend, I have decided to make use of this wood slab. What would DA do? Sketches, ideas, anything appreciated. I was thinking a bench. The top of the slab is not flat... anymore. I have been staring at this for a year now and can't decide what to make.

Materials: walnut slab, tapered teak legs.
Tools: Mini Lathe, chop saw, drill press, amateur wood shop.

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objectworship
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03/10/2015 2:58 am  

Keeping the full length, I'd opt for a sofa table or console upon which you might place lamps and things.
or chop it up for step-stools


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jesgord
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03/10/2015 3:04 am  

Live edge longboard skateboard!


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Amazake
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03/10/2015 4:15 am  

Cut slab table at just outside large dark ring to make a three legged console place fourth leg Under remaining piece and create an extension for the console table
Like this table at Andrew Spindler antiques


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NULL NULL
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03/10/2015 5:58 am  

Two shelves... or one really long one.


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04/10/2015 3:59 am  

Lovely hunk of wood.
I'd hang it on the wall vertically. Yup.
Best,
Aunt Art.


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SDR
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04/10/2015 6:55 am  

Not flat ? How ? Cupped -- or crowned ? Flat enough for an occasional or display table ?
Good ideas above. Longboard, indeed -- with monster wheels, maybe . . .
Here's what I'd think you want:


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tktoo
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04/10/2015 7:41 am  

Nice response, SDR.
Keeping the live edge is, I think, exactly what the plank (and Tex) wants and splayed tripod legs are really the only way to go here. Wedged through-tenons are a nice traditional and Nakashima-esque touch, too. AND every operation is easily, perhaps best, accomplished over a weekend's time with hand tools. No electricity, flying dust, or loud noises required.
Maybe it's just the hand-drawn sketch or the obvious thought you've put in, but, either way, I love it!


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04/10/2015 8:05 am  

Well -- a drill press is a quiet tool, I guess ! What's the Cadillac way to go, with those bores -- should they be tapered holes, to accept the wedged tenon and lock the head of the leg in place -- or is that overkill ? Does anybody make tapered drills ?


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tktoo
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04/10/2015 8:16 am  

Sure, Lee Valley Tools offers spoon bits for use in a bit brace made for this exact application. There are tapered reamers available, too. Traditional Windsor chair construction almost requires them.
http://www.leevalley.com/us/wood/page.aspx?p=57713&cat=1,180,42337


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Pegboard Modern
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05/10/2015 1:24 am  

I like that... WWDAD (What Would Design Addict Do)
The slender width would suggest to me a console table, or as SDR said, "display" table. We have a client who bought a Nakashima dining table which was quite narrow, more narrow than they wanted for their dining room, but not as narrow as what you typically think of for a console table. They put it in the middle of a room by their entry and used it to display small sculptures, other artworks and art books. Looked great.
I would totally use wood legs rather than introducing another material like metal, and would think about making it a height you could use along a wall as a console, behind a sofa in an open floor plan, or as a long, low bench/ table. It's certainly a pretty piece of wood.


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SDR
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05/10/2015 2:36 am  

Oh -- the name of your display/sofa table: "Three-legged Walnutfish 1.0"
If it were mine, I'd ponder leaving the board as found, with perhaps a bit of fine sanding and some oil -- or sanding the underside more vigorously, with die grinders and belt sanders, shaping it into a smooth underbelly.
(The great advantage of three legs: the piece will never "rock.")
Whatever you do, enjoy it to the fullest. There's no pleasure like standing back and looking at what you did . . .


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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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05/10/2015 3:10 am  

You could make something similar to this:
http://www.designaddict.com/forum/General-discussion/Aasbjerg-walking-table
Although I have to admit that with an unstable large slab like that the three legs will never wobble argument is good.


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05/10/2015 3:32 am  

Oh, yes, I liked that table/object. Did you ever try it with the legs repositioned ? Many a designer has probably wished he could present a design in more than one variation . . . !
I never got an answer to the question of the surface of the walnut piece: is it not flat ? What is the texture ?


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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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05/10/2015 3:54 am  

I wish I owned that table. It sold in New York a while back.


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