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A Custom Conference Room Table
With this commission, we get to combine our wood working talents with Betsy's great artistic talent.
This conference room table will be 10' long with cherry banding and the interior field will be made from spectacular maple that is spalted, flamed and curled. This is a very unique piece of wood. The client joked in saying that he is in a "win-win" situation because he is challenging Art to create a piece that equals Betsy's artwork and vice versa.
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We traveled to Virginia to be able to find cherry logs that were large enough and of that quality needed to create the table border. |
Each log is then resawn to yield the best figure and also to meet the dimensions needed. |
The edge portion completed. It was a unique challenge to have the boat shape and at the same time have the mitered corners that are 10' apart come together correctly. All joinery here is mortise and tenon. |
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The resawn pieces of maple were book matched and then moved to Betsy's studio so that she should work on the torn paper collage. |
Once the collage is complete, it will be moved aside and the boards taken down to the shop for forming and mounting in the table
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A detail of the collage against the wood |
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Betsy moves the collage down to the actual table so that we can size and determine the bookmatching of the boards. |
A test panel was made up for the client to approve. This is a representation of how the final top will look. This is really spectacular maple. The entire tree was wormed ambrosia, flamed and curled so we bought the entire tree! |
Jack and I unloading the "stretcher" that we built to be able to transport the top |
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We enlisted the aid of Jack's son, one of his friends and even the client in getting the top up to the 2nd floor. ( Note: the only smart one is Jack, supervising from below ) |
The leg bases with their temporary triangular supports being placed in the room
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The cross support being installed |
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The top is installed |
Betsy begins installation of her torn paper collage. |
Collage detail |
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The finished top |
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