Went on a trip this weekend with the girlfriend and came home with a solid Teak table that I'm not sure what to do with. I'm not totally in love with the shape, but it isn't terrible. I don't really know anything about it. Firstly, I suppose... does anybody recognize it? It's about 55" in diameter, I think. Inch thick, maybe a hair or two less. Has been refinished with poly. I mostly picked it up thinking I could do something else with it. Like rip it up and resaw it into thick veneer, or I don't know. Guy I got it from, who refinishing/repaired it, said he thought it was butt joints, and it does look like that. Said he couldn't remember if he used biscuits to repair it. Odd. Anyway, it was $160. That seemed worth a shot. Should I have second thoughts about treating it as lumber/project parts? Forgive me if this is a terrible question to ask.
Odd. Very odd.
Has it been repaired right to allow for wood movement. I don't really understand that perpendicular to-the-grain board underneath with a screw in the end of it, but it looks very questionable from a wood movement standpoint.
I guess I've seen too many very bad repairs on solid wood furniture. The Aasbjerg solid teak dresser I just repaired had had one of the drawer slides glued onto the side of the case. I believe that must have happened recently, as it would have really screwed the piece up if the wood had been allowed to try to move with a board glued there to resist it. And I fixed a couple of solid teak Hvidt & Mølgaard tables once that had had oak board screwed onto the undersides, cross grain, in a misguided attempt to strengthen them. The tops had bowed a good couple inches out of flat and then had split through the middle to release the strain.
But back to the table at hand: I really don't like the weird shape. I think it might look perfectly nice as a circle?
Thanks for the quick response, leif... it is in two pieces at the moment. Attachment hardware to allow for movement is the plan. The original configuration was confusing, yeah... I ended up asking the dude a ton of questions about it, because it all seemed so strange. My first thought was to, yeah, trim the corners off of it. Still a decent option, but for the fact that I don't really need such a table. Have to admit that my primary interest was the wood. But I don't want to like, defile something nice, you know. I'm having trouble staring at the angles and imagining a round top, but it probably would look nice. More clean, anyway.
Is it possible that this isn't as old as I imagine? If the base didn't feature the angled supports for screws, I might imagine that the legs and apron belonged to something else, and somebody with some spare wood just made a new top. But I don't know. I'm new to a lot of this, and my imagination takes me places.
The shape is just kinda... dumb. Unless it's supposed to be a poker table. Hmmm.
Maybe I need new glasses but that sure looks like an 11-sided table. If so, that is without a doubt the weirdest configuration I've seen. 8-sided, sure. 12-sided, sure. But 11-sided??? I agree that round would make more sense, and should be pretty easy to do. But if you can use the wood and can't use the table, I don't see anything wrong with that.
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