Mesquite Bookmatched Coffee Table

Cool, is the bleu natural?

-- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!

That is a real nice piece! Is that Inlace you are using for the inlay or crushed turqouise nuggets? I would like to see a shot of the base…

Thanx fer the post…

-- Frank, Dallas,TX , http://www.allthingsrustix.com , “I have a REALLY BIG chainsaw”

A great looking table top. Those slabs are fantastic.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Very cool super wood too

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

A beautiful table, completely ruined by the blue inlay IMO.
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Sorry, just not my preferance at all.

Ryan

-- I restore the finest vintage tools! If you need a nice plane, saw, marking tool or brace, please let me know!

you sided right you did use the best wood mesquite very unique table ,very nice

Beautiful Table. Great job.

-- Jeff, Laguna Hills CA

STUNNING!!!!!!!!

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Sometimes I wonder if people weren’t taught manners or just dont care to use them….anyway, I love when people offer compliments only to take them back in the same sentence. Beautiful work, it has compelled me to shred my diet coke cans and use them as inlays. ya know, something unique and environmentally friendly. And why does “Next Day Air” take 3 days?

The inlay is sleeping turquiose, from globe arizona. Around the desert south west we use what we have. We have a lot of mesquite and semi-precious stones. Once a year I make a table with crushed turquiose and mesquite and see it at my friends Gem and Mineral show gallery. The Table sold in 3 hours today. Rich people from other states love this kind of stuff.

I’m with Dozer: It is kind of like someone handing you a 100 dollar bill in one hand and aiming a tazer at you with the other hand… ;]

I think the inlay work looks awesome, Mesquite is one of those woods as you and I and alot of us know lends itself well to inlay work because of all of the voids that can arise. It is up to the individual artisan as to what he chooses to fill them with, you can use black, which is ok sometimes but dull, or you can use anything you darn well want to. Doesn’t matter what you do some people in this world just don’t get it, never will, they are not capable of thinking outside the box. I find it to be one out every 1000 at some of the shows I have done. They should however have enough common descency and respect to keep their un-constructive criticism to themselves.

Your table reminds me alot of guy’s work not too far from you outside Santa Fe, NM. He uses Turqouise as well as Agate, Silver, Amonites, Soapstone, and he is well reknowned for his work, His coffee tables sell for 5-10,000 dollars, he is a nice guy and his brother, I have talked to him on the phone before and he gave me some tips on inlay. I find his work inspiring, take a look at it sometime when you get a chance, it gives you good ideas, he is at andysanchez.com
Anyway you say you sold that table in 3 hours, well what does that tell you? You should have had 5-10 more on the truck ready to go:) hehe

Be well, Great Work and Thanx fer the post….

-- Frank, Dallas,TX , http://www.allthingsrustix.com , “I have a REALLY BIG chainsaw”

BEAUTIFUL! I love mesquite