Need Design input on table: Symmetric or Asymmetric?

#1

-- Clint Searl....Ya can no more do what ya don't know how than ya can git back from where ya ain't been

Both designs look good to me. I want to know how you got that “cookie” dried without cracking?

-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm

#2. I think that angled leg would be a problem since it sticks out past the edge of the table.

-- Bill M. I love my job as a firefighter, but nothing gives me the satisfaction of running my hand over a project that I have built and just finished sanding.

Both look pretty good to me, but I’d go with narrower legs. +1 to wanting to know how that cookie didn’t crack.

-- Richard, Hot Springs, Ar -- Galoot In Training

It is a beautiful piece with no cracks on it. Whatever you do with it, it should turn out nice.

-- earthartandfoods.com

#1 – the asymmetry of the legs works well with the asymmetry of the slice. But what Richard said – make the legs narrower, maybe as small as half what your mock up uses.

-- Mark Kornell, Kornell Wood Design

Thank you all for the input.

The cookie was cut a few years ago from a healthy tree, but one that needed to be removed due to interference with utility lines. Within days of it being cut, a friend sealed both sides with a single thick coating of poly that was slopped on. Apparently that helped slow the drying down enough to minimize cracking.

So is the consensus for narrower legs, regardless of the design?

#1 with more of a hook at the end, to tuck it in a tad.

Maybe mock it up with thinner legs and a color closer to finished.

How thick are the legs ? You can play with the visual weight on how you treat the edges.

Gonna look great, post a finished pic.

What do you mean by more of a hook? Curve the far-reaching leg back in a bit on the outside edge?

I’m planning to use oak plywood for the legs…and I’ll add some oak veneer to the edges for the appearance of solid boards…and was planning on them being 3/4” thick.