Nakashima desk

[ZeesWoodShop]

I have been a lurker for a long time now but decided to post some of my projects.
Just finished this slab desk, cut all the wood and milled it myself.
Book-matched the top and joined it with 10x50 dominos


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[GhostFist]

stunning!

 

[Holzhacker]

Absolutely love the top. Great job on matching up the two sides for great appearance. Sorry don't like the legs though. I could see either some SS poles or some odd trapezoid support thing on either side. That's just my weird ideas though. Nice work.

 

[ZeesWoodShop]

Thanks, salvaged the wood off my farm. Was cutting up a tree that blew down when it hit me it was walnut. Salvaged about 3 truckloads of wood out out of it. have slabbed most of it, now just need to wait for the moisture content to drop to a usable level.

I ended up with a bunch of big slabs like this


IMG-20120130-00008 by TheEvillOnes, on Flickr

 

[alfa]

Looks great!

I have a piece of Cocobolo that I'm doing the same thing with for an entry table.

Would love to see how you attached the legs to the top - can you post some pics?

Thanks!

 

[ZeesWoodShop]

let me look I think I have some, will post tonight

 

[ZeesWoodShop]

Not the fanciest way to put it together but it was solid as a rock.
8 3 inch deck screws per leg, the leg brace was connected to the leg via 2 10x50 dominos per side


IMG-20120208-00074 by TheEvillOnes, on Flickr

Thanks

 

[CDM]

Is there some accommodation for wood movement?  If not, you might want to go back and drill out larger holes for the screws on at least one end of each leg.

I made a little maple TV stand kind of like this a few years back.  The top is 11 1/4" front to back, but for the winter has shrunk by 1/16" in both the front and the back relative to the slab legs.