The Wide Board Club

[Southside]

Mesquite with copper inlay.

That is beautiful.  Do you smelt the copper and pour it yourself?  How complicated it that process?

[PA_Walnut]

That is beautiful.  Do you smelt the copper and pour it yourself?  How complicated it that process?

I can't answer for Tule Peak, but often times colored epoxy fillers (even with metallic flakes) are used on tables. I've used all sorts of colors...in fact, I have a walnut slab table in process that I'm filling with bronze epoxy . 

I'll take some pix and post them soon. The process requires patience, but is relatively easy. Wooden or bronze butterflies are also used. I have both. I'd love to melt cooper, aluminum, silver to cast my own, but that's a ways down the life-goals list.

[Jeff]

Let me change that to the forestry forum dictionary.  Banjo

Forestry Forum Dictionary

[Roxie]

I just love this place.  :D 8)

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I have NEVER laughed at a thread this much since i've been on the FF.
This is HILARIOUS!  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[thecfarm]

Jeff did a good job with that definition. I think he has way to much time on his hands. Check out some of the reason to join,if you never had to put that down to join. swampdonkey in a swimsuit????  say_what

[Southside]

Jeff - 

What about a currency converter as part of the tool box, this way folks can quickly and easily know the true value of what's in their wallet.   ;D

[WDH]

 :D :D :D

SGU

:D :D :D

I love this place, too.....goat and all.

[Brad_bb]

You know I see a lot of slabs, and a lot of sticker slabbed logs, but I don't know anyone that actually has a slab table.  I guess I need some rich'er friends?!

[Ianab]

You know I see a lot of slabs, and a lot of sticker slabbed logs, but I don't know anyone that actually has a slab table.

Make yourself one, then you will be the "rich" person to your friends. ;):D

Heck it's not that hard to make a table. Mine only needed 3 boards.

[nativewolf]

You know I see a lot of slabs, and a lot of sticker slabbed logs, but I don't know anyone that actually has a slab table.  I guess I need some rich'er friends?!

Good friends have them, hot item here in DC.  

[SawyerTed]

I have laughed harder recently but I can't remember when.  :D :D :D

Here it takes a minimum of two standard goats to equal a SGU!  

[Jeff]

You know I see a lot of slabs, and a lot of sticker slabbed logs, but I don't know anyone that actually has a slab table.  I guess I need some rich'er friends?!

Uh hum! I take a 19ft long 3inches thick 60 inches wide 1635 year old slab pig roast tables and turn em into truck beds! You don't know anyone else that ever did that!

[Brad_bb]

Where is that thread Jeff?  I saw the running board in your gallery.

I'm talking about the big slab tables.  from trees 35+ with crotches.

[Jeff]

Big enough?

Pigroast Table Large Forestry Forum redwood display table for sawlex. in General Woodworking



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[PA_Walnut]

You know I see a lot of slabs, and a lot of sticker slabbed logs, but I don't know anyone that actually has a slab table.  I guess I need some rich'er friends?!

Brad, your "walnut neighbor" dude may want a walnut slab table to match his mantle! :D

[tule peak timber]

Not wide , but fairly long, 86 feet. Forming up this bar top today, with copper inlay tenons at each joint. Rob

[Brad_bb]

Tule, I hope it comes apart for moving it?!

[tule peak timber]

Yes sir !

[Southside]

When I was a kid I played around with model airplanes and a guy down the road a ways helped me a lot. He built his own plane in his basement over something like 20 years. Well, somewhere along the way the basement door must have shrunk as when it came time for the plane to leave the basement there was a little problem. I never knew how that all ended up.

[Ianab]

How about this one?
It's in the Kauri Museum in Northland. It's one single (clear) board, and ~6" thick. The top alone weighs about one ton. 

[tule peak timber]

A beautiful table Ianab ! What did you use for a finish in that beast ? Nice work !

[Dakota]

My my, that's quite a slab.

[Dave Shepard]

When I was a kid I played around with model airplanes and a guy down the road a ways helped me a lot. He built his own plane in his basement over something like 20 years. Well, somewhere along the way the basement door must have shrunk as when it came time for the plane to leave the basement there was a little problem. I never knew how that all ended up.

I knew someone who built his own plane. He was bombing around in the neighbors hay field and it took off on him. He didn't know how to fly a plane, and never intended to gain altitude.  :D

[Darrel]

About 1978, I worked at a large mill on the Northern California coast that won the bid to cut all the lumber needed for the restoration of Fort Ross State historic Park. http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=449  So the logs were halled in, 10' to 14' diameter redwoods that had toppled in storm in one of the redwood state parks. The cut list was as spectacular as the logs. Most of it 3" thick, width ranging 6" - 24" in width with a few 36" width thrown in for good measure. There was one board on the cut list that was to be cut out of Sitka spruce. 3"x36"x24' #1 or better to be used for a table top. Took us a day and a half to find that board. 

So about five years later, I had a chance to go see the restored Fort Ross. It was kinda cool looking at the finished restoration knowing I had already seen all the boards and touched many of them. But there was something missing. I couldn't find that 24' table anywhere so I asked about it. "Oh that, we cut that into three 8' tables tops. We wondered why the mill sent it as one piece."  

Because it was on the cut list.