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This is another early project. The wood came from the same apple tree that the little stool was made from—another slab from the same crotch piece for the top. The walnut was some stuff I scavenged from a remodeling project at my local library.
Looking back, I can see the stand is a bizarre confabulation of joinery. The base is made up of a small log split in half with a dado in the top for the “leg” that projects to the front. There are 3 walnut “feet” that are dadoed, glued & screwed into the base. The single pedestal is mortised through the leg and glued. At the top of the pedestal are two “aprons” on each side screwed to the pedestal (holes covered with fake pegs) and then screws through the bottom of the aprons secure the top. It was finished with several coats of tung oil.
It was a the first piece I ever sold, so I was a little proud of that, but it was full of imperfections which I’m not proud of (I suppose that’s the lot of a woodworker…) Weird as it is, it was important to me.
Dan
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Bigbuck
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posted 471 days ago
Nice job. Interesting design.
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TreeBones
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posted 471 days ago
Very cool, way to go!
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thetimberkid
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posted 471 days ago
Great job!
Thanks for the post
Callum
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brianinpa
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posted 471 days ago
It is because of projects like this that I really enjoy this website. Every day I see another project that displays craftsmanship and one that stretches the general rule of woodwork design. Great job!
-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.
danzaland
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posted 135 days ago
I have tried to take the outlook that there are a million different ways to get to an end result, and to free-form something like that the end result is all that matters. It think it looks great and unique. It doesn’t look like it came with a set of assembly instructions right???? The big thing is did you learn anything from it, being a new way to do something or a way NOT to do something…..
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a1Jim
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posted 135 days ago
This one unique and fun stand super design
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danriffle
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posted 134 days ago
No, this one certainly didn’t come from a set of instructions or plans. I was sort of infatuated with George Nakashima’s stuff at the time. I had these pretty chunks of apple wood and wanted to make something equally pretty using the free edge pieces, but I didn’t want it to look ‘rustic’. My skills were pretty mediocre, but my ambition was high :)
I learned a lot from this piece, like it takes forever to hand sand end grain really smooth. If I had to do it again, I’d use a wider piece for the pedestal with dual tenons on the bottom for more stability. All in all I think I was just lucky with this piece—that what I saw in my head turned out to look okay AND that I didn’t cripple myself cutting dadoes into an irregular shaped hunk of log with a wobble dado blade.