Our customers recently experienced some disappointing and painful surprises. Aargh! (Life bites! sometimes, huh.) So the family decided to have this fine custom-built maple table redone to serve some critical upcoming family gathering plans---and hopefully before the up and coming Christmas holidays!
The top of this beauty is just shy of 72 inches in diameter, so it's both big AND beautiful. Just take a long look at that pedestal base (below)! It's "twisted" 90 degrees from bottom to top. Is that cool or what?!
The base's four-inch circular twists (below), a total of eight, really help distinguish this piece. The size of the top on that stunning base and the visual depth we anticipate in the top's maple grain will really make it visually exquisite when all the work is done.
I'm showing it to you in pieces here simply because we couldn't put the top on it's base in the shop. It occupied a third of the shop for almost two weeks, so we had to schedule it into our work accordingly.
In keeping with the home's decor we were asked to try matching the table to the color of their home's floors (above left). That process took some trial and error (and some back-and-forth), but I think you'll agree the effort was successful. You can see a piece of the hickory floor we "borrowed" to help us approach a color match on the table's top and base.
Here are a couple pictures of the base and the top respectively. I'll acquire and publish a picture of the table in the family home and all together in a future blog. God willing our customer will move back into their newly refurbished home before Christmas. In the meantime these two pics will have to do.
That's Wood Talkin for today, but keep listening...because wood has a voice of its own.
Dick
