Century Table

That makes a great table!

ROTFL about the shop being half clean when he moves the car out.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Beautiful table, nomatter how you cut it. mike

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

Very nice table. Round glass was a perfect choice.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Nice table, must have been a lot of hand rubbing. Good salvage of that oak.

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

wonderful table.
(cool car)
I, too, laughed at the 1/2 cleaned shop, once the car is pulled out.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Wow, that must be heavy.

Now that’s what I call a conversation piece!

-- You can't get a hug from Facebook.

That’s awesome!

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my kind of furniture

-- hap, gunbarrel city tx.

I love one of a kinds and this definitely one of a kind.

-- DocK, WV

Mick This is beautiful! I had never heard of beeswax and turpentine before, I’ll have to research that one.

-- Kevin -- (http://www.furniturebykevin.com)

Hello Mick;
—-one great oak stump century table you have created here….!
I can see that there has been some time put into the cleaning of the wood and then also the buffing of the beeswax to get that ‘soft sheen’.

Some questions if I might ask….what is the weight of this piece running at?....and,
....I see in the background of your shop where you already have some other pieces of rustic in the works. In the first and last photos you have some legs debarked, with some tenons already cut into the wood and in the first photo there are some legs already put into a wooden slab. As to the making of those tenons, are you using the ‘tenon maker’ along with a router for making those tenons?

Once again, I do indeed like the stump of oak for a foundation along with the glass top….great table top and great piece of ‘wood art’....

....and thanks for sharing this project with us here at LJ.
GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

Thank you all for your kind comments. This is the first time I’ve posted something and your encouragement helps a LOT!
In answer to the queations above…
-the table weighs in the neighborhood of 125 lbs (glass included)
-the tenon-on-legs in the background was made with a Barker Drill Carriage and Clamp unit from Bosworth
-I do have a LogMan tenon maker for longer tenons – the clamp system is faster
-I make rustic log furniture (beds, benches, tables, lamps, etc.) for my small business, SplitLog Rustics
-I like finding things in the woods that I can turn into useful household items, like the stump table. I find plenty of interesting logs that I make into garden benches. I also do cypress tables and clocks. The cypress is Eastern Cypress and it does crack but the finish “fills in” the gaps and it still looks great.

-- The name is "Splinter"... I'm the son-of-a-son-of-a-carpenter

now that is beautiful. i love the look of it its so different to what i am used to seeing but i love it. great job and very creative.

Very will done. Where are you going to put it?

-- Ron in Osseo, Minnesota

Actually it’s for sale. I have another couple stumps I’m working on at present as well.

Thanks everybody for the kind comments. I appreciate it very much!

-- The name is "Splinter"... I'm the son-of-a-son-of-a-carpenter

I’ve always thought of doing something like this. Gives me encouragement to do so… Thanks! I’ve always been concerned about embedded rocks though. Do you ever run into that?

-- Michael R. Harvey - Brewster, NY - RusticElementArt.com - SpaceAware.org - AnConn.com

I used a pressure washer several times before I did any cutting. It was pretty clean of anything before a blade touched it. I also did a little ‘exploring’ with a screwdriver just to make sure. One little rock will kill a chainsaw blade.

By the way, this stump came from a blow-down and had been exposed to the elements for a long time, so most of the dirt was already gone. I look for stumps that are out of the ground like that, leftover from logging crews who bulldozed the trees, logged them clean then left the stumps. Just make sure it isn’t rotten. I’m lucky to have a Boy Scout Camp near me (850+ acres) that I’m free to explore… and they’re clear-cutting part of it.

-- The name is "Splinter"... I'm the son-of-a-son-of-a-carpenter

Great looking table Mick. I really like the looks of the natural stump incorporated into furniture. Especially with the glass top so you can see down inside.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

Great table. Mick you mention the use of industrial magnets to hold the table top, would you explain that a little for me? Thanks – You’ve given me some ideas, I have some old cedar stumps on my place.

-- Fred, Georgia

The industrial magnets are rare-earth magnets, thin and incredibly strong. I sank them into 5 spots on the supporting arms of the stump then glued mates to the underside of the glass top using the same epoxy as for windshield/rearview mirrors. Since the magnets are at spots that don’t fit a symmetrical pattern they serve to center the glass top on the stump. They’re also strong enough to hold it in place if it’s gently bumped/brushed against while sitting in a living room but not so strong as to be able to pick it up by the top.

-- The name is "Splinter"... I'm the son-of-a-son-of-a-carpenter

Mick, I actually have some of those same magnets but have not thought to use them as you did. This is a great website, I learn something new every time I access it. Thanks Again

-- Fred, Georgia