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I designed this stone top coffee table for a furniture show. I took a slab of limestone and held it up with hardware cloth and river rock. I then put wood pegs in the limestone to hold the glass top. Inside the cones are steel to support the heavy limestone top. I think it worked well except I should of used a larger river rock in the hardware cloth.

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That's really fascinating. Very unique! I'm especially intriqued/ curious about the legs…are the stones locked in a medium around the struc steel or just loose in the hardware cloth? I guess if the pegs were sealed it could make a a great outdoor/patio piece as well. I like it a lot. What are the dimensions? Stephen
 

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Interesting, I've never heard of limestone wood before. I have heard of ironwood is it similar?
 

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Stephen the stones are loose inside the hardware cloth for installation. The dimensions are 35''x 65''. Some people suggested without the glass it would be a great outdoor table. I am making another one similar without the glass.
 

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Well now isnt that special, quite the talent, everything from porcupine quills, glass rocks, antlers, stones, metal, plastics, and even wood. I would really love to have an inside look to your shop where you do all of these things. Such a wide variety of many specialized disciplines, (turning, flatwork, sculpting, masonry) you are truly talented. I just wish you had a few more pictures of this stuff going together or a couple more angles on each project. I totally understand though if that would conflict with the artistic presentation of the piece.
 

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TimL, you are to kind I will take your compliment and savor it in my heart for inspiration on the next internal intersection of art and nature. My idea's are always spawned from my spiritual connection with natures will, not my will. Love enter's in. I live in the country for a reason to let the souls of nature transcend upon me therefore a flow of ease exist's when design or technical problem present themselves. I never take a picture of beginning stages because it's a process that's not finished. When you bake a cake do you take a picture of the batter? I live alone so I joined this site not to fill my ego but to get professional advice on my designs. Positive strokes are nice but constructive critisum is my needs.
 

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Cool table, but I am confused? Besides the connecting pegs is there any wood on this table? I live on the river and am always looking for ways to use all that river rock laying in my back yard. Am I understanding this correctly- you didn't set the stones in the legs into a crete mixture? I would also love to see a few more close up pics of the table, especially the legs. :)
 

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rivergirl , the stones are loose, for installation and moving. It would take four pages to explain the process of putting the rocks in the hardware cloth and still supporting with steel inside. The design has levelers, attatchments and a floor jack is needed to install it. Take it for its one of a kind beauty.
 

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Is there any wood on this table or is it basically just stone? Also, I sew pretty well so I think I can pretty much figure out how you fill up a cloth triangle with stones around some rebar. I think though that for me it would be easier and more functional to (think Buddy Rhoades here) make a cone form from cardboad and put in some concrete screen and then pour the stones in crete to make the legs. My neighbor did poured riverstone/crete pillars for his pavilon. Worked well and stands up to the flooding of river which occurs each year. :)
 

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I feel if you filled up the cone with concrete and stones it would not have the desired effect . In a close up their is space between the rocks that give it the airy apperance. That is why I said I made a mistake and did not use bigger river rock for more definition and space between the rocks like a sculpture with a holes in it. A two inch river stone is what I should have used . Better luck next time right Lol.
 

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Well, I think it looks fine the way you did it. 2 inch stone is pretty clunky and really I don't know that bigger stone would have given you noticably more space between the rocks. And the weight of the the bigger stones may well have pushed out your landscape fabric in a non-uniform manner. I would need to see a closeup photo of the one you actually built to see the "airiness" of the leg. It doesn't lreally look airy from this perspective. If you have close up please post it, I would love to see it. :)
 

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I am the creator , trust me the stone you see is only 3/4 '' diffrent colored stone. I am talking about the grey mexican round flat river rock or even the flores green colored stone flats. There needs to be more space so the hardware cloth is the strength and smooth river rock is the intrigue with space between it becomes magical. Like a glass planter with river rock inside to hold cut flowers. No concrete that's the beauty which causes someone to fall in love with it and want to live with it.
 

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Well I don't know that I agree- though your ideas are interesting.
At my house here in PA I am surrounded by the river a big deep river not a meandering california stream called a river, and I am therefore immersed in grey and black and brown flat round river rock every single day of my life. So that being said, I don't agree that the clunky large stone would be more "airy" than the small stuff. But if that is your perspective than so be it. I wish I could see a little closer on the rocks on the legs so that I could better understand. :) If you like the concept of the flower bowl filled with rocks, then perhaps tempered glass legs filled with rocks is the way to go next time?
 

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I can t change anyone only myself. Read my bio again carefullly I am from Texas not california. That all rivergirl.
 
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