Thread: Grey Ironbark dining table WIP

I liked the Windsor-esque legs (as said previously, I made a Windsor-esque table years ago), I just found the framing obsolete and detracted from the otherwise clean lines.

But as others have said, if the customer is happy, then the most important party in the equation is happy.

I didn't comment earlier on this WIP because initially I didn't like the look of the table but I knew that the finish (even CH's 90% soup!) would tie the design together and make it a table rather than a collection of bits. Even then I needed to wait to visualise it with chairs, especially wicker, on a Manly patio, and see it as a a dining set ... and now I love it. The most dominant visual element is, and will be, that fabulous top.
BUT (and there is always a BUT) I am now stuck with the mental image of claw dancing naked on the table ... and this will take years of counseling to erase!
I've only just got over the trauma from the image of 2 forum stalwarts standing, fully dressed, on a Z chair ..... and they call you a gnome CH??

fletty

Back from the briny sea, great dive.
Ah youz guyz, its a good laugh. Ok 90%, one thing leads to another 33.3% rounded down to 33% I've just taken it a step further to 30. Actualy sometimes I do drop in about 10% Terebine, other times a drop of turps which pretty much does the same thing and other times my measurements are rather slap dash and one or more gets a bit extra in the pot. Lets just call it an approximate 1/3 of each.
I am just about to do a few experimental mixes. Linseed is by far the cheapest ingeadient in the mix so I thought I would just try a few mixes to get the cost down and still keep a top grade finish and it still has to be supa fast drying.
Will post my findings once I have had a play.

Hey WW, I did end up needing the side rails, the extrmely heavy weight of that light looking top along with the turned legs (they were still 48mm dia) let it quiver a little so I added a block inbetween the leg and the skirt which was enough to dampen it. And as we said before it's "the look" the client wanted.

Fletty, I think it was someone else naked not me, I will only go as far as drag. Well unless someone is happy to come good with more cash

Ok must go and wash the salt off my dive gear. I picked up a nice piece of copper sheet that would have come form one of the old bridge pilons years ago (Swansea Bridge NSW) will come up very nice on one of the art works.

Do you pick-up much while diving Craw? The copper sheet sounds like a good find

Hi Springy
You never know what you mike pick up, pushbikes, spaners, pottery, fishing rods and or reals, 130 yr old bottles, bullets, coins, old coke bottles, a small mountain of sinkers, the list goes on. Just lately though I have been looking for things, "stuff" that I can add to artwork or make artwork out of. Last week I picked up a few old bits of broken pottery, some smaller pieces of copper and some thick copper wire. All good just to throw into the art bin.

This is the copper sheet I picked up while scuba diving the other day, this will no doubt end up in its own thread. Its about 900mm long and 300 wide very corroded and crusty.

You could almost frame that as is

Hey Nick, I did look at it and think it would make a great mobile, let it twirl in the wind.

Originally Posted by Claw Hama

This is the copper sheet I picked up while scuba diving the other day, this will no doubt end up in its own thread.

It's going to be interesting to see where your imagination leads with this.

It'd be great to be able to find the things underwater like you have Craw. I've done a fair bit of snorkeling but never scuba diving. I've occasionally found some prizes just walking along the waters edge, there's a few good places here in Victoria that seem to be stopping points for flotsam and jetsam pushed ashore.

When I lived in Hobart for a while I went for many walks and on one of them came across a very small beach in the Dewent river estuary. It was mostly covered by high tide but low tide allowed a fossic. I discovered amongst the rocks, shells and rubbish an unusual amount of broken glass, old worn broken glass, odd bits of porcelain and crockery. The glass was mainly the inevitable amber colour, the less usual green and white but scattered about was the rare blue glass, a beautiful dark blue glass which I gathered thinking I'd use it for something, sometime.

It came back to Victoria and sat in a large clear glass vase for years until one day I discovered it had disappeared and nobody I asked knew where it had gone and I've never seen it again I had hoped it would turn up during the last move, had an eye out for it but sadly never surfaced I'll go back to that beach someday and see if I can gather some again, maybe I'll find the glass vase too I still have two shoe boxes of green and white and unusual shaped amber glass together with the old bits of porcelain, even a old porcelain doll that's missing her arms and legs.

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Originally Posted by springwater

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You are right Springwater it was a story and a good one at that.

Hey guys, I collect stones from overseas trips, stuff from the bottom of the sea even small chinks of rusty steel from 100 year old wrecks, all manor of things. I even kept a lot of the broken mirror from the blue mirror job yesterday. I will use it somewhere. I love your beach glass story Springy, These things all have stories and history that can be woven into a new story.
Pete I have the copper sintting on my workbench so the mind can be working on it while I'm doing other jobs.