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These are a pair of end tables. The customer wanted them like that to match the other table I posted in gallery.
The crosscut blanks had a huge crevasse so I suggested a few praying mantasses or some kind of bugs but he decided on some arrow heads that he had. I guess the items had a history.I used clear epoxy from U.S. Composites, masking tape and then after drying up to 1000 grit sandpaper. I was after the oil was applied that it looked like clear as glass. My first such project.































14 comments so far
Eric
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posted 276 days ago
I like that. How did you dry the logs?
-- ED
BlueStingrayBoots
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posted 276 days ago
Hey Eric, I cut those pieces and left them in my small barn for a few months. This wood is very stable so you dont get any extra work or problems with it.
Eric
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posted 276 days ago
Cool. Someone offered to let me take a couple trees from them. Not going to be that size in Austin, but I’m interested in working with some.
-- ED
jockmike2
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posted 276 days ago
Beautiful project. I’ve made something similar but yours looks much better. lol.
-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com
scott shangraw
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posted 275 days ago
Nice way to use those voids that mesquite always has.
-- Scott NM,http://www.shangrilawoodworks.com
BlueStingrayBoots
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posted 275 days ago
Hey Scott, I went to a wood carvers show here in Pharr, TX this weekend. It was aweome, I got alot of new direction and ideas. Lots of senior citizens. Met a carving instructor, invited him over and sold him some wood slabs for his classes and he invited me to his classes also. Theres new tools out there now that make even a novice do good carving work.
wooddude
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posted 275 days ago
Never done this, but it looks like something I would like to try (looks very cool!). So, basically just cut some slabs from a trunk and let them dry out? Is the epoxy just for the void? Any thing over the oil?
Thanks
Kindlingmaker
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posted 274 days ago
I like the top very much but the legs are outstanding!
-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings
SCOTSMAN
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posted 274 days ago
I don’t know how you come by your wood I will say it’s beautiful well done a jealous oldish Scotsman LOL regards Alistair
-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease
BlueStingrayBoots
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posted 273 days ago
Thanks freinds. This is a clear bartop epoxy, but I just use it for voids, little too expensive to pour all over everything. Couple coats of tung oil seems fine. The rest has gloss urethane.
Scotsman, theres plenty wood just outside, so saddle up, get the wagon too and dont forget the Stihl!
Dooley
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posted 267 days ago
I’ve got a stihl! What you’re a days drive away? Maybe some weekend?
-- Dooley, Wheat Ridge, Colorado http://www.facebook.com/joshua.whaley
Karson
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posted 259 days ago
Very Nice Boots. Looking greast.
-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †
MsDebbieP
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posted 255 days ago
I missed these!
NICE
-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)
BlueStingrayBoots
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posted 206 days ago
Dooley, I’m not gonna let you stop by my house and cut everything up with your stihl….
lol