I made this recently for a Charity Auction. The top is a beautiful piece of Redwood Burl that I picked up several years ago and was waiting for the perfect project. This was that project. The piece was scorched around the edges and had obviously been in a fire, forest or otherwise.
The rough piece was kind of half moon shaped to start with, which is what gave me the idea, I just cut the Demilune shape out of it. First I had to fill a rather large inclusion with epoxy. Next I routed a fairly large chamfered edge all around, top & bottom, sanded it to 400 grit, grain filled it (clear), then sprayed it with 8 coats of Behlen Smooth Coat lacquer. Finally, I rubbed it out with Pumice & Rottenstone an applied 2 coats of Black Bison Natural paste wax.
The legs were cut out of a single billet of local Indiana Ash (I am saddened by the loss of the Ash trees, such wonderful wood), cut and tapered before I planed a gradual chamfer on each edge so that I ended up with an octagon at the bottom. I applied a custom dye blend to go with the color of the Redwood, I then sprayed a couple of light coats of Tiger Flake shellac to seal the dye before wiping on several coats of Behlen Master Gel.
I was very happy with the way it turned out and got many complements at the Charity Event. Plus it raised a nice amount at the auction, for a very good cause.
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