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Live edge coffee table9/25/2023 Red Mahogany & Black Resin River Coffee Table. Details on these items can be found at this Woodcraft Magazine - Success with Slabs article link. Unique Live edge coffee table w/ coastal resin feature 455 x 875 Collect from West Wallsend Please send me a message if you would like a quote for a custom-made coffee table. Live edge bark can also be milled off, peeled off, along with using a wire wheel followed by sandpaper to blend, soften and shape edges to meet the slab surfaces. Keeping the live bark edge or removing it with a draw knife for a natural or non-bark edge while still showing the sapwood contours of the tree, are two options as well. Woodcraft Magazine Simple Slab Solution Article.ĭesign aesthetic choices could include filling any gaps with dyed or clear resin and/or reinforce the gaps, splits or cracks with decorative butterflies, bows or other support designs. Woodcraft Magazine video: Super Slab-Milling Jig. Live Edge Coffee Table: For this Instructable I will show you how I built a replacement coffee table for my front room. Round coffee tables range from 30 to 48 in width while oval tables are between 22 and 54 in width and length. The most frequent rectangular coffee tables measure 16 to 20 tall, 48 to 54 long, and 24 to 30 wide. You can hand plane a slab, or use a portable belt sander, but both are very labor intensive, and getting a perfect result may be difficult. Here are some detail links on planing a large slab with another choice, using a router sled. Especially with live edge, the dimensions are based on the size of the trees. Flattening a large slab can be challenging, regardless of having a large planer or thickness sander, because one face of a slab still needs to be flattened before feeding it through one of these machines. Which would you choose?īoth surfaces were pre-flattened at the s awmill before purchase. The decision as to which surface should be topside and which should be the bottom, wavered several times as the grain pattern on both were equally appealing.
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