My Dad (registered as "fitter" here) came by my sawmill and dragged a couple boards home to make a coffee table. A 24" wide curly maple slab and a piece of walnut....the pictures cannot do it justice, it's sharp.
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/12216/table1.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/12216/table2.jpg)
It is beyond sharp 8)
That is very nice!
What OWW said. It needs said again. It is beyond sharp. I like the design.
Very cool. I hope he has some nice coasters. :D
Was that cut from a silver maple? The one in your avatar?
El Nice-o (two years of Spanish in high school) :D
i will say it,WOW
I want a 24" wide curly maple slab :-\. That's a beauty, Daren. Your dad is a talented woodworker with a good eye for design! :)
I like that table. 8) It is cool how the top looks like it is floating above the frame.
Bob
When I see a tree, I have to look at the bark and the leaves and the fruit, etc. It is a real problem. The first thing that I thought of when I saw that table with the floating top was what it must look like from the bottom up :). I am intrigued by that floating top.
Walnut and maple make a real sweet couple ;D.
Superito el jobo - [3 years of Spanish in hs] :D
Yo soy un muchacho. (I visited moms spanish class one day when I was about 8 )
what a beautiful table. The wood is really pretty, but your dad sure has an eye, Darin. You gotta be proud of him.
OK! Where's fitter?
You have a man?
Tha' s the San Francisco interpretation, Dodgey. :D
I speak better Portuguese than Spanish, anyway ;)...or should I say, eu falo português melhor que espanhol :P
Диез, очень острое.............. , диез, острый;
Didn't have any Spanish in HS; it wasn't offered; we (including teachers/administrators) were so ignernt we didn't know we would need Spanish. Duh.......the only Spanish I know is Sargeant Garcia, Zorro and Elfago Baca. :)
Quote from: thurlow on July 12, 2007, 06:25:40 PM
Диез, очень острое.............. , диез, острый;
Hmmm...In Russian, that means "Sharp, very sharp.............., a sharp, sharp" Was it intended to make sense ???
Ahhh, it's all coming together now. By the way, Tom, I just remembered that soy means "I am", while tengo means "I have". So your previous comment makes a lot more sense now :D.
I took 4 years of Spanish in HS, and am married to a Puerto Rican...I only remember the basics and of course regularly hear words that cannot be used on a family friendly forum :-X . But I am smart enough to know the context in which they are used means trouble for me most often :D
This is fitter. Hey guys thanks for all the comments. But lets face it, that piece of wood
is so nice, I could have set it on four cinder blocks and it still would have made a nice looking table.
Dude, look at you, your first post after 2 (?) years of smiley_computer_monitor here.
Quote from: fitter on July 12, 2007, 09:25:27 PM
I could have set it on four cinder blocks and it still would have made a nice looking table.
But you didn't, you made a
killer table (must have been fresh out of cinder blocks :D, and improvised with walnut)
Quote from: WDH on July 11, 2007, 11:38:41 PM
Walnut and maple make a real sweet couple ;D.
Indeed 8)
Quote from: Daren on July 12, 2007, 09:56:41 PM
But you didn't, you made a killer table (must have been fresh out of cinder blocks :D, and improvised with walnut)
Fitter, this response is in
English. Not Spanish, not Portuguese, and not Russian. "That is one awesome
killer table. Cinder blocks ???. On a scale of 1 to 10, cinder blocks are a .0000001 and that table is a 10 ;D :D 8)".
I still would like to look at it from the bottom up (in case I ever wanted to try to build one) ::).
That is a beautiful table fitter. I'm like WDH though and would like, if not to much trouble, to see how you did the underside work. :)
2 years?!?! :D I can't keep my mouth shut for 2 minutes. :D :D
Welcome aboard.
If you didn't know better, from a distance it looks like a piece of marble or stone. Kudos, very beautiful work from the carpenter and sawyer ;) :)
I haven`t taken any pictures underneath. But, it`s real simple, the stringers are beveled about an inch in four inches from the end, with a screw in the middle to handle moisture expansion. If that ain`t good enough I can post dimensions, but without a piece of that maple it`s just going to be another table. You`ll have to talk to Daren about that, and I figure the price of curly maple just went up ;D
Quote from: fitter on July 13, 2007, 10:14:00 PM
I figure the price of curly maple just went up ;D
The price of the lumber is pretty steady...I hope the price of fine woodworking goes up . I know
now how to make that table :D.
Great table, and just for the record, It's all in the adjective chosen. There are lots of different ways to decribe that grain , but for me I call that FLAME / TIGER because the axis dances out of "plane". That is to say that it is not just rows of curl (boring, nice but boring) they taper to nothing and then redirect on another direction and then terminate and redirect. Almost like a camp fire flame dances around. FLAME.
Great stuff, Reid
Welcome to posting on FF fitter ;)
Extremely nice design on that table. the slab of figured maple floats above the legs in all it's glory. Wow it is inspirational.
Now we know where Daren got his eye for ingenuity and creativity.. ;)
max
Reid, OK that is enough with the fancy descriptions ;) :D
It is hard enough for me to not think about wood 24x7, now I can't even go fishin or sit by the camp fire, without visions of wood :D :D (Last night I was in the boat running the trolling motor, and watching the water bubble up and thinking about BLISTER figure ::) Next I will see flame maple images in my mind when sitting by the campfire ::) :o
Max
Thanks for the laugh. Reid
Fitter, I seen your table elsehwere and asked daren for picture underneath too. Never did get one. Now you are getting more requests for an underneath shot.
You know you have arrived when instead of getting requests to buy the table itself, you can practically take orders for mere pictures of the thing just from the bottomside. :D
Hey fitter, I was flipping through last month's issue of Fine Woodworking, and I noticed a coffee table in the Reader's Gallery that looked similar to yours. Is that where you got your inspiration? I actually liked that one so much that I bookedmarked it, but I had completely forgotten about it.
Quote from: Dodgy Loner on July 20, 2007, 02:05:47 PM
Hey fitter, I was flipping through last month's issue of Fine Woodworking, and I noticed a coffee table in the Reader's Gallery that looked similar to yours. Is that where you got your inspiration? I actually liked that one so much that I bookedmarked it, but I had completely forgotten about it.
[/quote
Yep, I liked it so well, I made one. I kinda had to improvise the dimensions, so I made it to suit me!