Blended turning

[Robert McGowen]

Quite a project, David. Very well done!

[Bill Bolen]

Gorgeous piece. What fine craftmanship. Your family will still treasure this loooooong after we are gone.

[Baxter Smith]

Beautiful work! Matching leaves and chairs in the future?

[Steve Campbell]

I'm sure the Kids are going to love it, and their kids, and their Kids. Well you get the idea.
Oh I like it a lot too.

Steve

[Jeff Nicol]

David, That is just beautiful! I have had a dream to make a pedestal table of some sort one day and yours gives me all kinds of ideas on what to incorporate in one if I ever get to it!

Thanks for sharing and keeping my dreams alive in my overful brain!

Jeff

[David Reed]

Thanks all for the great comments. It was mostly a very fun project. Not my first large diameter pedestal but my first veneer experience, if you can call it veneer.

.......how did you get the burl? Did you slice it off by resawing or is it a purchased veneer?

David, Like Roger, I am interested in the burl veneer - looks like some very large pieces. I know you enjoy BLM and it really finds a home in this table.

I do enjoy the BLM burl but the major reason I use it for so many projects is that I have a bunch of it. I sliced it from some big slabs of burl I harvested from the homestead. I am also nearly finished with another table from a large slab of said burl and will post it on the appropriate spot on the creek soon. Lovely wood.

The top looks like it might separate and allow for use of an extension. Is that the case?

Yes is separates and I have three 12 inch leaves to expand it to seven feet long. With the large pedestal and stout legs, it is pretty stable even without supplemental legs.

David, I have the beer if you have the cards.

the bar is open.

I would've loved to have seen the top finished with a varnish mix to get the ash burl to pop!

Like I said, it was not my preferred finish but the burl really looks pretty good, just the lighting shows it poorly - one day I will take the time to learn better lighting and photographic techniques. It's tough enough on small turnings, but a large flat surface really baffles me.
And Baxter, I just don't have the patience to build a full set of chairs. One can be fun, but eight? Not happening in my shop.
Thanks again for taking the time to look and to comment.

[Dan Forman]

Lovely table, I bet that one will be in the family for a looooong time.

Dan