Thread: blackwood and huon pine dining table

It'd be a fairly low-key contrast but I'm sure it would look good.

Just the same, I wouldn't use Huon for this. I'm not sure whether it'd have the structural strength for use as rails; I'd be concerned about the tenons. It is a very soft wood after all. By the same token, a Huon frame around the top of the table would probably end up being dinged fairly quickly... I've found the edge takes the most knocks. Chairs being slammed into it, people leaning against it with belt-buckles, etc., etc.

Nice idea but I'd be looking for a similarly coloured harder wearing timber and save the Huon for more decorative pieces and/or items where the smell's part of the feature. Like jewellery boxes.

Hi

I would think that a blackwood frame with huon veneered top would look better IMO. For some reason my brain keeps telling me that the major timber should be the darker.

18mm veneered mdf is about $178 for 2440 1220 sheet.

good luck

dazzler

do you know where the best place is to get a sheet of veneer in hobart. i think that your idea sounds better than mine. With the veneer i could put a blackwood frame, rail and legs or would that look crap?

Huon Pine and Blackwood Table

Have you thought about maybe using Celery Top. It is similar in colour, fine grain and as hard as Blackwood.

Regards

Scuttle

I'm with Skew and Dazzler, a bigger contrast would look better.

Originally Posted by taskitchen

do you know where the best place is to get a sheet of veneer in hobart. i think that your idea sounds better than mine. With the veneer i could put a blackwood frame, rail and legs or would that look crap?

Hi tas

Perfect I reckon.

The place in campbell st thats blue and opposite woollies, websters, brewsters or something similar.

cheers

dazzler

The final result could depend on the color of the blackwood that you use.
If its the pinky brown stuff from tassy it may not contrast enough, but if it was the darker stuff from the otways might be acceptable.

Though if you used some narrow contrasting inlay between the blackwood and the huon you might achieve a startling effect.

The final result depend on the actual finish you use.
e.g a water based clear will give a much different appearance to shellac or oil or even lacquer.

If I finish a bit of rose gum with aqua clear it looks for all the world like a piece of redgum done the same way. But if I use shellac or oil the rose gum looks browner than the redgum.

Originally Posted by dazzler

Hi tas

Perfect I reckon.

The place in campbell st thats blue and opposite woollies, websters, brewsters or something similar.

cheers

dazzler

Yep Brewsters it is.

Kev M