Thursday, September 3, 2009

Wonderful Walnut

I got some great looking walnut slabs in today that will be turned into a dining room table and some benches. These pieces are right from the center of the tree and are just amazingly clear. Wonderful pieces of wood, but they pretty much take up my whole shop ;)


I still need to figure out what pieces go into what things, but I couldn't resist planing down one end of a slab to see how things would turn out.


After a couple minutes with my 5 1/2 and my Spiers (and a rub of tung oil) I wound up with something like this:


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