I once found a couple of elm burl slabs for sale on the cheap, so I bought them without having any plan for them.
They have the size of a medium coffee table, so why not try to make a coffee table?
they were cut in slabs with a chainsaw and far from flat. To begin with I tried to use my scrub plane to roughen them nearly flat. After lots of lots of sweat and swearing I gave up and took them to the nearest wood shipbuilding yard. They have a thicknesser whitch can take up to 100 cm wide boards.
Now they are flat, but still have marks from the machining.
I used a holesaw to drill three 48mm holes in an angle in one of the slabs and then I went to a friends machine shop to borrow his lathe were I turned three 50mm aluminum axels into taper for the legs.
I have then used my orbitsander to sand down the machining marks.
Im filling all the cracks and knot holes with different colors of hot glue.
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