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I made this table (55”x24”) from a 10’x2’X3” slab of walnut I’ve had for some time. Having never done any live edge work before I was not sure what kind of results I would get. I wanted to inlay something on the top but I also wanted it to be subtle. I went outside grabbed a handful of leaves and wa-la I had model to work off of. I laid them on the table in different places until I was happy with the look and used the exact leaves to make the veneer copies actually using one to cover a knot with a hole in it. I filled the holes with epoxy before doing the inlay. The leaves are made of cherry veneer, maybe a little dark but I didn’t want them to pop to much. The little burl on the top left had a cut going through it from the saw mill, it must have broke there and was left sticking up about 1.5”. I left the knot hole & filled the slice with epoxy because I didn’t have the heart to just plane it flat. Its finished with a few cotes of lacquer.
-- Paul Sayre Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
12 comments so far
Rob
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posted 295 days ago
You really made that table smooth and it has great personality with the knot! I love the natural look of it, excellent job!
scrappy
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posted 295 days ago
Beautiful table. Love the natural look of the leaf inlays as well as the live edge. Great job.
-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!
savannah505
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posted 295 days ago
Beautiful, but are you sure those aren’t iron on leaves? Really, you did a great job here.
-- Dan Wiggins
griff
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posted 295 days ago
Beautiful, really like those inlays to.
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lew
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posted 295 days ago
Absolutely Gorgeous!!
Love the leaves- wish there would have been a walnut leaf in your yard, it would have tied it all together!!
Good Luck in the contest.
Lew
Danette Smith
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posted 295 days ago
Wow! Beautiful table. Very unique use of leaves.
Good luck in the contest…Danette
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brianinpa
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posted 294 days ago
Beautiful piece of walnut. Nice work on the table.
-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.
tinnman65
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posted 294 days ago
Lew your right, I did think of that but not a walnut tree to be found in my neighborhood & I had to dig through the snow to get the ones I got :)
-- Paul Sayre Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
jockmike2
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posted 293 days ago
Beautiful work, just gorgeous walnut, very good job on the inlay too.
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Rusticman
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posted 292 days ago
I love it. You were right on the money with the inlays, just enough but not to much. Excellent.
-- Dave, Ohio,www.rusticforest.com
janice
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posted 291 days ago
Really nice furniture. Especially like the rustic table. I would love to make something like that for our cabin, but don’t really think I would know where to begin. Don’t know anything about inlays either. Love the chair too.
-- Janice
David A. P.
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posted 285 days ago
Excellent-looking table, and the subtlety of the inlays really works well.
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