Thread: Dining Table Blackwood Surprise

Oh and the surprise, I think I might nail my wireless internet card to the underside at the moment along with a couple of Telstra employees. Still not sure about the surprise, it will all become clear on Friday maybe or Sat morning before I deliver it

Hi Claw,

Hmm, photos, and I have a front row seat this time. Nice!!! Really like that Blackwood. Looks great mate.

Cuba at 40 metres and so clear, must have been a top dive.

Might leave the Telstra reps for the crab pot though.

Cheers
Pops

Hey Pops, the legs have come up very nicely with a coat on them, keen to get the top sanded up and some finish on it. Cuba, ate lobster for two weeks dived in 29C water mostly clear, Cuban rum, music, great combination.
Crab pot seems like a good option for them

What you have done is beautiful claw.
Can hardly wait to see the finished product.

Hi, thanks Rich, just fighting the 40C heat this week, slows the progress and makes it tricky to get finish on. At 40C it would just set on the brush and end up a train wreck.

Love the way the finish brings out the grain!! Gorgeous!

When I first came to Australia, I drank up everything Australian. I went to Museum Victoria and saw a simply beautiful early Blackwood table. That table inspired me to make a copy which I was sorely dissappointed with – the wood looked awful – so I sold it.

The grain in your table is what I was after. Nice job!

Yes, shes coming along guys. I glued the legs to the top this afternoon so a little (ok more than a little) sanding tomorrow and I can realy start putting finish on. I think it always looks bad after the first coat and doesn't realy come to life until the sencond or third. I'll have to send you an off cut or two WW so you can have a play. Good Blackwood has so much life, feature and chatoyance, great stuff.

Originally Posted by Woodwould

When I first came to Australia, I drank up everything Australian.

Next. Cleaned up the underside of the table, have fixed some of the surprise elements, nothing too startleing. It was too hot to put any finish on at about 4pm and 41C when I had it ready to go. Did a few things inside in the air conditioning but went home for a while. Went back at 7.00pm, temp down to a chilly 31C and applied the first coat to the underside and second coat to the legs. (forgot to take the camera when I went back)
Shots, fist one is silver soldering a brass escutcheon pin onto the handle of the fork.
second is drilling a couple of pin holes and glueing the fork down. I have bent one of the tines over to use as the front pin. third, fork all pined down. Another three surprise items fitted, will show them tomorrow when I take some more pics.

This will make it a Forkin Blackwood Table CH

Wonder who's job its going to be polish the silverware under the table

The fork for some reason reminded me of my younger days when I had to eat my cooked peas or else I couldn't leave the table or have sweets Cold peas tasted like poison then, I'd bayonet them with a fork prong I've always liked raw peas though and eventually got the job of podding them only if I whistled at the same time Where is this going If the Blackwood beauty were mine I'd have liked there to be peas, albiet fake ones, embeddeded around the fork just in case you needed to know that

Hmm food for thought, peas under the table. Polish? under the table you don't have to polish it Ray, its only the kids that get to see it. Keeping the chewy off might be more the problem.

Looking very speccy KoZ