Slabs!

[nclemmons]

Makes perfect sense!

Thanks for the explanation. 

Welding gives you a lot of flexibility in doing things like that!

 

[rmwarren]

Ron,

That's interesting, I haven't experienced it but my oldest lacquer sprayed stuff is just going on 12 months and lives indoors. Were you spraying and was it one or more different brands or somthing experiencing large temperature swings i.e. outdoors?

I don't know if the Behlens product is any better than anything else but it goes on nice and dries to invisibility.

RMW

Thanks for the info Richard. On the lacquer front, I have had pretty much zero long term success with lacquer for a finish coat on my steel stuff. Looks good initially but then gets a lot of cracking and checking within the finish after a while. That's with proper cleaning and handling. I have switched to a solvent based enamel and am getting better long term results.

Ron

 

[Cheese]

[member=167]neilc[/member] the legs are 2" .120 wall tubing. I cut them long @ an acute angle, then using the Portaband slit along each side edge, hammered the sides out to the profile we wanted & cut/welded in 1/8" filler. In case this makes no sense...

Welded on some 1/2" by 2" flat bar to close up the bottoms and started grinding. The cordless angle grinder is your friend.

Thanks for that Richard...that makes sense.  [big grin]  I'm a big fan of those legs, I think in stainless they'd be even more stunning on a piece of spalted maple . [smile]

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[threesixright]

Would swear I see an alien in the third photo (from the top) [scared] !

 

[rmwarren]

It's almost criminal how long projects linger around here. Recently knocked out one more slab, only 3 + a burl left to figure out projects to suit.

This is around 3' of cherry finished with Waterlox.

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Whipped up some industrial-ish brackets from 1/8" & 3/16" steel, welded a couple nuts onto 3/4" solid rod to hold slip hooks then gave everything a black patina and lacquer finish.

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I'm looking for suggestions on what to do with the walnut burl, at a guess there's some nice figure hidden in there.

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Tossed between hollowing it into a bowl resting on a tripod of metal legs or flipping it over and using it as a base for something else. The bowl would probably best feature the burl.

Appreciate any suggestions.

RMW

 

[Bob D.]

It looks like a small island that's made from one big mass of rock.

What if you bored a large diameter shallow hole in the top
slightly off center to hold a potted plant or a small bonsai.

 

[Thompmd]

Beautiful piece of wood Cheese! What is the project going to be?? I’m a slab guy and love the pics!! Just picked up 30 slabs yesterday 26 Walnut, 3 White Oak and 1 Spalted maple. Walnut was up to 2 3/4 x 40” x 98”, 9pcs from same tree. Others up to 15’.

 

[bkharman]

That looks like a Cyprus burl I had in the 70’s as a clock. It also would make slick bookends with a split down the middle.

Cheers. Bryan.

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[Cheese]

Beautiful piece of wood Cheese! What is the project going to be?? I’m a slab guy and love the pics!! Just picked up 30 slabs yesterday 26 Walnut, 3 White Oak and 1 Spalted maple. Walnut was up to 2 3/4 x 40” x 98”, 9pcs from same tree. Others up to 15’.

I wish I owned that piece of spalted maple.  [crying]  It was a bench that a local store was selling.

Here's a picture of the LH side and on the RH side there were bright yellow mineral streaks right next to the black lines...stunning is the only way to describe it.

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[Thompmd]

That piece is beautiful!!

I do too lol!! The Spalted Slab I got is 2.5”x20”x132”.