Thread: Dining Table Blackwood Surprise

Front row seat again!!

Like the look of the BW Claw!!

i fear movement problems with the variable humidity enacting its evil spell on a timber that likes to squirm.However, I have great faith in your ability to cope with this!!

Morning artme & Claw nice way to spend a few days sitting down watching someone work

Banana and Ginger cake anyone ? Got a bit tired of ANZACS

Underside surprise carved faces, chunks of coal just so it could be Carbon dated

How about pasting a newspaper header onto the underside? If the paper if from the day the table is finished, it would be a handy way of dating the table.

Originally Posted by Woodwould

How about pasting a newspaper header onto the underside? If the paper if from the day the table is finished, it would be a handy way of dating the table.

Neat idea. Perhaps some cartoons for the kids.

Great lot of blackwood

WVery nice Claw.

Do you biscuit/dowel the boards or do you just clue them?

Pappy

Nice bits of wood there CH - just like they should be, nice and thick

It's a bit rough when the client asks for the surprise - makes it a bit of a non-surprise

I like WW's idea - glue the front page of the Newcastle Herald underneath. No hang the expense use the front page of the Newcastle Star

I'll have a piece of that cake pls Ray, It'll go nicely with me coffee

Hi guys
Art I have never had any problems with Blackwood and movement but I always alow for the worst anyway so all should be well.
Ray if you keep eating all those bickies and cake we'll have to put another axel under that chair.
Ray, WW, Pete, some interesting ideas on the surprise, coal, news papers, I had thought about coins wiith the years date on them etc but I like old and odd things that "surprise" or are unusual. I will keep an eye out over the next week and find something. I like snooping around our loocal antiques centre, its very big with a lot of stuff (The Centenery Centre in Newcastle) always worth a look if you're around this way.
Pappy, I only ever use dowels or m&ts, well mostly.
You watch your waist too Nick.

I guess a lego block wouldn't be right! My kid is obsessed with it! I think this summer will go down as the summer of lego! Or maybe floods?

Awwww nice, I like blackwood. just grabbing my seat next to artme, wonder when Waldo is coming to take his seat.

Hey CH if the current clients are looking at this thread it aint gonna be much of a secret what you put under the table.

Hi TL, Al, it will be a surprise even to me, I won't know what it is untill I do it and thats usualy the last thing I do as its going out the door onto the trailer. Untill then I'll just look around and see what interesting things I can find.

Maybe something from the new owners line of employment CH.

CH no problem I have cut back on all things bad for you back to eating carrot & celery sticks, I had put on 2kg and i do not want to head that way again.

Good to see you doing another table. I have been thinking that one day I should try making a big item like a table. As I have this habbit of putting coats of finish on the items inside the house in the front Veranda and it might not fit so well.
So I took out my tape measure and yep that's not going to stop me as I have just enough room to walk around. But then again it is a table I can always craw underneath when I have to go out, or answer the door.

Originally Posted by Claw Hama

I like old and odd things that "surprise" or are unusual.

I was thinking part of a mobile phone but that would be way too modern. Then again one of the first mobiles that came out. The one that was more like a brick and the seperate battery pack that came with it.

Yes Ray I did think about the owners field of business, but they grow turf, don't think they would fancy mowing the under side of their table maybe tractor parts I'll keep looking. Ah yes Christos, I had one of the old bricks, it was the same shape and just a little smaller than a WWII walky talky. I'll keep looking and you start your table, space is not realy a problem, just do it