| Project by Mick | posted 271 days ago | 373 views | 2 times favorited | 19 comments | ![]() |
This is an Oak stump I found in the Boy Scout Camp near me. It is at least a hundred years old. It is hollow but the wood is still in good shape. I pressure washed it, cleaned up some of the bad spots in it then leveled it with a chainsaw and a laser. The top is held in place by industrial magnets. The finish is the old fashioned stuff of hand-rubbed beeswax and turpentine then buffed to a soft sheen. The shop in the background is a mess but I wanted to post the pic. I built dollies out of old pallets and swivel wheels for moving things around in the shop. If you look closely in the 3rd picture you can see my youngest sons’ 72 Chevell SS he has stored in there temporarily. It’s gathering dust at the moment so when he moves it to his new house my shop will be half cleaned up!
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19 comments so far
CharlieM1958
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posted 271 days ago
That makes a great table!
ROTFL about the shop being half clean when he moves the car out.
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jockmike2
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posted 271 days ago
Beautiful table, nomatter how you cut it. mike
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GaryK
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posted 271 days ago
Very nice table. Round glass was a perfect choice.
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TreeBones
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posted 271 days ago
Nice table, must have been a lot of hand rubbing. Good salvage of that oak.
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MsDebbieP
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posted 271 days ago
wonderful table.
(cool car)
I, too, laughed at the 1/2 cleaned shop, once the car is pulled out.
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rikkor
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posted 271 days ago
Wow, that must be heavy.
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Betsy
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posted 271 days ago
Now that’s what I call a conversation piece!
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Blake
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posted 271 days ago
That’s awesome!
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hap
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posted 271 days ago
my kind of furniture
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DocK16
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posted 271 days ago
I love one of a kinds and this definitely one of a kind.
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Kevin Violette
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posted 271 days ago
Mick This is beautiful! I had never heard of beeswax and turpentine before, I’ll have to research that one.
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frank
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posted 271 days ago
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
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Mick
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posted 270 days ago
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.
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teenagewoodworker
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posted 214 days ago
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.
HallTree
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posted 214 days ago
Very will done. Where are you going to put it?
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Mick
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posted 208 days ago
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
RusticElements
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posted 208 days ago
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?
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Mick
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posted 208 days ago
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.
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trifern
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posted 65 days ago
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.
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