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Rustic Walnut Dining Table and Benches

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This is the first dining table and the largest piece of furniture I've ever made - I learned a lot! It's all Oregon Walnut, mostly from the same tree. Some musician friends who own a log home outside of Olympia commissioned a "rustic" table with a live edge. The legs I designed turned out to be anything but rustic... luckily the clients loved the look of the sleek (but beefy!), post-modernish legs at 45s and their contrast to the more truely rustic, organic form of the tabletop as much as I did.

The thin top proved problematic and was very controversial in the community shop I work out of, yet ultimately is a choice I stand by because it is half as heavy, half as expensive as it would be otherwise, and it actually works well visually IMHO. ;o)

I filled the two voids in the top with epoxy resin, coffee, gold flecks,etc. The finish is oil-based poly and wax.

posted in: The Gallery, walnut, bench, rustic, live edge, dining table, olympia, resin

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dilettante_woodworks writes: Absolutely beautiful and what an accomplishment for a first time project. I recently built my first dining table and after I brought it home I cringed when things were put on top of it. I don't think I'd let anyone even look at this the wrong way if it were in my house! Very nice. Posted: 3:19 am on September 22nd

RobTheNob writes: Simply goreous. How did you smooth it? Posted: 5:37 am on September 17th

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