For the past three days I've been working on flattening these three slabs of Quilted Maple.
This involves a tremendous amount of hand work with the hand planes, I'm using a 5 1/4 jack a smoother and my jointer. so far I've filled up a large garden waste bag just with the shavings from the hand planes. Not only must these slabs be flat and true from end to end but they must also not have any twist in them. It's a good workout and I'm sure I'll have dropped a few pounds by the time I am done.
Fortunately I have a 24" drum sander so I'll be using it to flatten and true up the rest of the slab.
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These two slabs will be for a table that is to go in our own home, the finished table will be apx. 6' in length by 30" in width. The table will be built to the same height as our kitchen counters so that it may also double as a kitchen island. My plan is to eventually also build 4 chairs to go along with the table.
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This 3rd slab is destined to be another table for the gallery, it is the next slab from the flitch sawn log as to the last table built, and my intent is to replicate that table with this slab.
All three of these slabs feature some very nice quilting
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