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Octagonal Base for rock coffee table

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Octagonal Base for rock coffee table

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

There have been a lot of pictures posted here of late and none of them have been something to sit on, eat from or a place to store your socks.


This was to be a simple base for a circle of granite (really is granite) to replace the wooden box it currently sits on. Not a tall challenge to improve that situation. Somebody showed me a plant stand with a spoked interior and I was smitten. The simple plan for a base became this puzzle. It was interesting assembling it for gluing. To my astonishment it all came together well.

walnut, burnt umber artist pigment, shellac. May overcoat with varnish....undecided.

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Wiley Horne

Beautiful, Bill!! An aspiration for many of us.

Wiley

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Paul grover

Very nice and interesting to look at. Paul

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David Weaver

looks great!!

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Bruce, a MN Galoot

That’s really nice, Bill! It will be a great complement to that piece of rock.

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Robert Hazelwood

That looks great! Seems like fitting all of those horizontal stretchers on the top would be challenging.

Can you elaborate on the pigment? Is it powder pigment that you mix with oil? I like the color a lot.

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Seems a shame to cover is up with a big rock


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#8

I'd like to know more the pigment too


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Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

Maybe some day the rock will crack and someone will put a glass top on it.

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Oskar

very nice Bill. Finish looks great!

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Raymond in Trenton NJ

Very nice Bill. What is the overall diameter? I think it will be plenty visible under the granite. The lower spokes stretcher is far enough down where you'd have to be right on top of it to not see it. I like the chamfered joints, adds nice shadow lines.

Thanks for posting,

Raymond

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