a claro walnut slab and rebar dining table

Very nice! What are the dimensions?

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What an amazing slab, and fine work to bring out it’s life.
Best thoughts,
Mads

-- Mad F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking.

Dan, been following your work for awhile. This is just another stunning piece you all put out. Great color, figure and depth of grain. I’m very jealous of that slab! Awesome work.

Your designs are always interesting to me. I love looking at your work and when I make a coffee table out of a slab I look fwd to incorparating some of that into it. The finish looks great on the top. Would love to hear more details on that.
The rebar is way cool wat you go!

-- Ken, "Everyday above ground is a good day!"

Nice piece of wood over there. How old was the tree?.

-- Dreaming patterns

Another cool piece with outstanding wood.

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

How did you go about flattening such a large slab? A huge router sled maybe? The grain looks fantastic, and the base is clever.

Really shows off the lumber….very nice

Dan,

Your table slabs never cease to amaze us. Butterflying that together must have been quite a project! Thanks for sharing another winner.

L/W

-- Jesus is the ONLY reason for ANY season.

thank you all for your comments … i’ll try to answer them top to bottom here …

dimensions are +/- 45×92 x 29.5” high

first, and maybe most important, find a relatively warm, dust free area … the finish, believe it or not, is two coats brushed on minwax poly fast dry gloss, applied with a 3” foam brush from jamestown supply. all foam brushes are NOT equal. get a good one. sand each coat with 400 when completely dry. . overnight at least. then apply a final wet coat of minwax poly fast dry satin. when that completely drys, you may need to scuff sand it lightly with 1200 or 2000 grit paper and polish it with a paper towel. you also may need a top coat of wiping poly or sometimes we add some linseed oil to the fast dry and wipe on. wipe off till it’s dry. experiment with this formula on unimportant stuff till you fully understand it.

i didn’t count the rings, but my supplier tells me most of these hybrid walnuts were planted in the 1890’s.

luckily, my supplier is VERY good at drying these slabs and a couple trips of the halves through the wide belt sander and we were good to go. it doesn’t hurt to use winding sticks and a little power planning by hand before the sander if necessary.

the butterflies are straightforward. there was just A LOT of them. enjoy your sunday, and thanks again for your comments … dan

ps. one last note. if you visit my blog, you can also change the way you view it at the top right ‘classic’ or ‘magazine’ are other options…

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This is one of the reasons I belong to the forum -to be inspired. Beautiful work!

And yes, the weather in North Carolina is a bit better than yours this weekend. Sorry!

-- John from Horse Shoe

Very nice. I love the look of the walnut. I also like to the new base. I would have never thought of rebar

-- Kelly, Allen,KS

What a great idea using rebar I love the look and it works well with the walnut slab. OK now I want to see you split a piece and use it like an applied turned molding :) .Another fine job from you guys!!!!!

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another nice one!

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