Live Oak Natural Edge Rustic Bench/Coffee Table

beautiful!!! people need to see live oak in person to fully appreciate this local wood. It will never be a commercially viable species for a number of reasons and that just adds to the special quality of the wood.
Very nice.

-- rob

I really like the way you shaped the edges to follow an organic shape, rather than using hard angles. Very well done!

I think I saw my first live oak tree last summer in Georgia. It had a huge trunk and was not that tall, more squatty for the massive thickness of the trunk and had gnarley branches and small thick leaves. It had a lot of character.

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Okay, live oak tells me that it is ‘alive.’ Looks dead to me… really beautiful…. but still dead.

Okay someone want to explain?

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you’re gonna make us Google “live Oak ”, aren’t you ….hahahahaa Great lil bench / table , Ron

link to “live Oak ” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_oak

Something else I would never have known if not for LJ’s : )

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

Looks great Bones…I have a Live Oak behind my cabin probably 5’ in diameter right on the bank of a creek , it is starved for sunlight and is surrounded by huge chain-saw blade killin Bois D’ Arc and smothered in wild Mustang Grape vines…and you can see signs of their once being a treehouse up in it. About 100 feet from it is the old wagon trail from Fort Little River to Bird’s Creek Settlement…. Probably early Texas settler’s children built that treehouse. I nicknamed it Methusaleh, because Lord knows how long it has been around and how much of our history it has lived through…They had a Live Oak blown down not too far from me by a local Christian school and the Texas Historical Society would not let anyone touch it, claimed it was over 1000 years old…Go figure? Wish I could live that darn long or not :)

The wildness of the grain in your bench reminds me of the Black Oak I have been working with, must be close cuzzins :) I myself leave those knots in as much as I can, I always find the wildest burl and interesting patterns in the grain closest to them and tend to only grind them down a lil bit….

Nice looking bench, and very Rustic-ated work of art, my friend, and keep up the out-of-the-box good work…

Be well…

-- Frank, Little River/Academy, Texas , http://www.allthingsrustix.com

Thanks all.

Great story SDS. A tree like that is one I would like to sit in for a spell.

-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3

Hi Ron, would you have an endgrain photo of live oak ? Being from the NorthEast , I’m interested in the growth rings compared to our Red and White Oaks up here that drop their leaves and shut down for the winter months. Thank you : )

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

Dusty, I don’t have a photo handy but will see about posting one over the next few days

-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3