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19th April 2024, 10:03 PM #16
Sorry for flooding the thread Rob, too many questions!, how old would the table be?. It looks Art-Deco?.
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19th April 2024, 10:04 PM #17SENIOR MEMBER
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Aspirational work - an amazing restoration.
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19th April 2024, 10:07 PM #18
I never took a picture before the top came off Sam and this is all I have. The top with its base. It'll be back together in a week though so Ill take a pic then.
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19th April 2024, 10:10 PM #19
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20th April 2024, 11:06 AM #20
It was a hard choice what to use to replace those sections Michael. Ive had Sapele pieces and veneers before and it didn't remind me of those. I actually think the solid Mahogany base to this table could be Sapele come to think of it. To add to the problem of these sections the ones still in the table have a grain angle slope at about 35 to 40 degrees so your seeing end grain almost . Which gives the light and dark effect when you walk around the top or spin it in its relation to the light. Its also pretty dense wood. The closest thing I did have and almost used was Ironbark. Red Iron bark possibly I think. Pieces I cut from sleepers years ago and use as bearers under large table tops on the work tables. The tight fine grain and the density seemed the same as did the colour. And I was considering very closely cutting up one of my bearers to give me the grain angle as well. The reason I didn't use it was there wasn't a piece that didn't have splits through it in the section that suited cutting up. The splits were dark and oxidized. So I gave that up and went the way I did.
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20th April 2024, 11:09 AM #21
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20th April 2024, 12:31 PM #22
It's good the substrate was plywood and not MDF like we see these days, it would have swelled and never gone back to it's original thickness/shape, great job on matching the veneers and your marquetry skills, there can be more time spent in doing that than making a new top which matches the design.
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20th April 2024, 07:35 PM #23SENIOR MEMBER
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You did a brilliant job on that. That should be worth a few beers.
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21st April 2024, 09:23 PM #24
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21st April 2024, 09:29 PM #25
Yep, it wouldn't be fixed if it was made on MDF.
I was thinking while fixing it that making it from new would have been faster. Working out how to fit in new parts with the old and add the stringing took a little working through it to get it right. Once I had it down pat things sped up a little.
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21st April 2024, 09:41 PM #26
How long did it take to restore Rob?.
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21st April 2024, 11:40 PM #27
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22nd April 2024, 06:11 AM #28
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22nd April 2024, 02:55 PM #29Senior Member
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Making from new might be faster, but the new one wouldn't have a good story to accompany it.
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