Thread: Responsable use of Huon Pine?

Originally Posted by Chumley

Hi Ohno,

If you're prepared to cut one of the slabs up for legs, but want to make use of those lovely-looking edge bits as part of the design, why not slice up both slabs and block up the table top with the 2 edge parts as the table sides. You will have plenty of lengths for legs and rails, will use all the timber, will maintain the same look and feel, can make the table a bit wider than one slab if you want, and you won't finish with one leg looking different from the others (unless you plan on making a single-legged table like that poor year 10 kid).

Cheers,
Chumley

Originally Posted by dazzler

yuk. natural edges are fine if like to paint your house in mission brown paint and have shag pile carpet

Tend to agree there, but it is horses for course and everyone is different

I would use a dark timber for legs to contrast it, cut off the edges and use both slabs for the top with some type of alloy inlayed between them for more contrast and a larger table - but that is just me so please ignore this post.

Incidently, i use to work at the Mt Lyell Mine in Queenstown and during the restart of the mine in the 1990's someone drove a truck onto site, craned about twenty tonnes of large old Huon and King Billy pine logs onto it and drove off, no-one saw a thing

with those edges it would make a hell of a bar. Imagine leaning against that with a coldie (on a coaster of course).