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The largest single piece table top I've ever done. A 5' x 17' piece of Angelim Pedra. Much more work than it looks like. It really did not want to stay flat or in one piece. I think it's all set now.      This message has been edited. Last edited by: Seamus, __________________________ "Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough." -Mark Twain | ||
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Wowzers. I'm strictly amateur hour, but I have some notion of what went into that. How did you keep it from cupping and/or splitting? Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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Wow. You need a person standing next to it for perspective. How thick is it? ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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That's beautiful. Good job. | |||
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What does wood like that cost? | |||
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Very nice! | |||
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PHPaul, Lots of swearing at it! As far as it wanting to curl up, we let it do it's own thing for about the last five months and then added some huge homemade tite joints. After filling with epoxy, we milled it flat,then sanded and sealed as quickly as possible.   This message has been edited. Last edited by: Seamus, __________________________ "Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough." -Mark Twain | |||
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Prices here. Slightly higher prices after we get done with them.  __________________________ "Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough." -Mark Twain | |||
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That's awesome, curious how much it weighs? | |||
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How about getting it into that 5th floor apartment? Seriously though, beautiful, amazing work. _________________________ NRA Endowment Member _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis | |||
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Roughly 1400lbs. __________________________ "Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough." -Mark Twain | |||
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Nice fix! So, some/all of that dark vein in the finished product is epoxy? Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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That's a beautiful piece of wood and woodwork. I have two pieces of chocolate albizia I brought from Hawaii that are severely curled, and I have not previously dealt with such an issue. I am thinking about cutting curls, or perhaps V-shaped cuts into the back of the wood (the concave surface) and epoxying while having weight on it to keep it flat. Is there a better way of keeping it flat while the epoxy dries? The pieces are each about 14 inches wide and about 10 feet long. I also have a nice slab of mango about 28 inches by 6 feet, would make a nice coffee table if I ever have a house of my own so I can have a shop. _________________________ “ What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”— Lord Melbourne | |||
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Almost all of it. I tinted it a bourbon color. You can still see the stainless rods in the epoxy. It really doesn't come through in the pictures. __________________________ "Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough." -Mark Twain | |||
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Nice. I love the grain. Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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That's a tough one. How thick are the pieces? Assuming you can get them flat without cracking, you may be better off machining out slots for angle iron. Make sure to oval out the screw holes to allow for movement. __________________________ "Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough." -Mark Twain | |||
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I have a lot of appreciation for that project. (I'd still be a little worried that it wasn't stable.) Very impressive. RB Cancer fighter (Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma) since 2009, now fighting Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma. | |||
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Trust me, I'm not resting well yet! It will be mouted to three very large legs cut from a different slab. I'll feel good once it's in place and is mouted to those. It still has to make it's way up over a balcony to the second floor of an office building. __________________________ "Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough." -Mark Twain | |||
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Gorgeous. Was this a board room/conference room table? | |||
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Thanks for posting that! That is totally amazing. 1700#? Wonder if making it will be more of an adventure than moving it. | |||
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