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RE: A very late anniversary present
Looks great! I'm a sucker for heavily "naturized" wood...that pecky cyprus is sexy looking!
Oddly enough, I made my wife a 6 ft kitchen table from spalted pecan just last year. Years ago my step father had a small mill. Had some really thick/wide chunks of southern pecan. Long story short, he died, wood sat, fungus came, made wood beautiful, dan took it to the mill, to get some good slices out of it...
Ultimately, the wood had softened up a bit, so I had to do a little bit of epoxy work on the underside and had to get creative with my cutting. But, after fixed up, jointed and treated, man, that wood came out beautiful!! (did the legs industrial (metal) no wood there.
Great stuff man, thanks for sharing!
Good grief sounds like you had some work cut out for you! I bet it turned out pretty though. Post a pic! I used some epoxy on this table to fill a couple knot holes. First time I ever worked with it. I definitely liked using it.
yeah, the epoxy is a useful tool. I used it one other time for our barnwood dining room table (that wood had some serious rot to dig out and repair!)
Ok, here is the spalted pecan...nowhere near the amount of woodwork you have on your piece (I'm but a humble amateur woodworker), but the wood was special and had some beautiful fungus stains :)
First time I've used industrial piping on a table (used it on this huge checkerboard cutting surface I made for our kitchen), needless to say it is a very sturdy table.
Man that is beautiful. I don’t think I’ve ever run across any spalted pecan. I’ll have to find some of that. Yep I bet you could put a baby elephant on your table!