Redwood Table Project
Ian visited to show off some keyboards he picked up at a local thrift shop. He told me about a solid slab table he saw while he was there. It was pretty cheap so I decided to go check it out. The slab looked like it was chainsawed and coated in about 1/8' of some kind of varnish. It happened to be 50% off furniture day so we grabbed it and took it back to the shop. We took a scraper and sander to it so we could check out what was underneath. It looks just like another block of redwood I have so we decided to 'process' it. First we cut off the live edges and took it down to about 15' wide, then we ran it through the planer. It was a pretty good find, there are some cool figured burly/flame/birdseye (?) kind of spots. A few bucks and hour or work got us a board that roughed down to about 14.5' wide, 60' long and 1.75' thick. I had to cut around some holes where the table legs were mounted but I ended up with two bookmatched tops about 3/4' thick.