Great read. Be sure to click on how the made the table top.

https://www.thefenlandblackoakproject.co.uk/the-tree

 

Putin must be getting a new table.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!

Agree with Lew. WOW !!!!!

Pretty incredible!

Agree with the wow!! That was a fantastic article and great wood find and preservation! 

 

Thanks for the read Gene!

yeah....we're gonna need a bigger shop....

Thanks Gene.

I cleaned up the link structure Gene. Not sure why it had all those characters.

Amazing story. Some years ago one of our member a Doctor was in on salvage of a oak log from a river in south Mississippi.One of our members turned some of it . Black as the night all the way thru. I do not recall the carbon date on it but several thousand years.

12 hours ago, Masonsailor said:

Agree with Lew. WOW !!!!!

With mine, we're likely at "Wow" x10 .... 

 

Their methods remind me of your cinema project lighting detail.

 

 

7 hours ago, John Morris said:

Not sure why it had all those characters.

Big Brother is always tracking us.   Especially from Arizona. 

 

Lots of metric but ending up with 30mm, what they call a "respectable" thickness.  We were all hugely relieved when we had achieved a very respectable 30mm thickness on all the planks.  But lookie at the trestle spacing. Table looks nicely flat.

 

Guess the Queen doesn't want a new table for the House. It may seem like The Fenland Black Oak Charitable Incorporated Organization now must beg for their "understructure" like the precariat. But it's only £200,000, not an undoable amount. 

 

Who gets the table when completed? 

46 minutes ago, Woodman said:

With mine, we're likely at "Wow" x10 .... 

 

Their methods remind me of your cinema project lighting detail.

 

 

Big Brother is always tracking us.   Especially from Arizona. 

Actually, the link came from Alaska, via Lumberjocks. 

52 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Actually, the link came from Alaska, via Lumberjocks. 

 

Well thank you Gene for bringing it over.

And WOW is right, don't know what else to say...

46 minutes ago, Cal said:

 

Well thank you Gene for bringing it over.

And WOW is right, don't know what else to say...

You're more than welcome, Cal.

Woe to a man who starts a project without considering the cost, and has to leave it unfinished because he ran out of money.

6 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

You're more than welcome, Cal.

Did I thank you also?  Cause I'm really impressed. That is the table I want for woodworking and crafting.

 

I've got an 8' x 20' Assembly Room on my blueprints with a 3' x 12' center table, but 4' x 40' would be far more convenient.

 

This one is 3' x 8' with the extensions. Definitely undersized.

 

 

 

17 hours ago, Woodman said:

my blueprints with a 3' x 12' center table, but 4' x 40' would be far more convenient

 

With a table top that size I could stop looking for stuff, it would always be lying on the table!!!

39 minutes ago, Cal said:

 

With a table top that size I could stop looking for stuff, it would always be lying on the table!!!

Flat areas collect tools.

4 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

Flat areas collect tools.

I don't get the point? Are there other places to keep tools?

"to make an understructure worthy of this top".

I'd love to be a fly on the wall to watch the iterative discussion and design process that comes up with the worthy understructure.  To me it begs to be invisible. Incapable of drawing attention away from that beautiful top. 

 

Then of course comes pondering about what scenario of use such a table will encounter.  My limited life experiences have me incapable of imagining any place/time installation where that table would make any sense. 

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