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johnny means
10-20-2019, 6:46 PM
This thing literally looks like fire. 6' maple table top. The bottom is a train wreck and reveals how problematic some types of figure can be.
Michael Todrin
10-20-2019, 6:56 PM
That is wild!
John TenEyck
10-20-2019, 7:18 PM
Need some more?:

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John
William A Johnston
10-20-2019, 7:52 PM
Johnny,

Table looks great. Is the wood hard to work with?

Did you just clear coat for your finish?

Bill
Jim Becker
10-20-2019, 7:57 PM
Ambrosia maple is sometimes pretty extraordinary, especially when it's also blessed with some figure. I cut some things for a client recently that featured both and wow...really kewel result.

I'm curious about all those "inlays" in that table top. Do tell...

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John, if you don't want that horrible stuff, you can drop it off at my shop for "disposal". :) :D
Mick Simon
10-20-2019, 8:09 PM
I use it quite a bit!

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Patrick Kane
10-21-2019, 11:11 AM
Want to clarify for myself, the OP, or possibly both. I think what he(and me) find most impressive about his wood top is the curl/figure and not the staining caused by the ambrosia beetle. Personally, i think ambrosia maple is unattractive. To each his own, but i think the crotch figure and curl in the OP's table is fantastic. I dont believe the ambrosia beetle or its larva produces figure, just the turd streaks throughout the board.
johnny means
10-21-2019, 7:01 PM
Ambrosia maple is sometimes pretty extraordinary, especially when it's also blessed with some figure. I cut some things for a client recently that featured both and wow...really kewel result.

I'm curious about all those "inlays" in that table top. Do tell...

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John, if you don't want that horrible stuff, you can drop it off at my shop for "disposal". :) :D418077

I actually call them glitches. Their our way of dealing with nasty inclusions and checking that are present in these highly disfigured boards. Like I said the bottom is a trainwreck.
Jim Becker
10-21-2019, 8:59 PM
It makes sense, Johnny, and I suspected that was the case. Fortuitously, that top is "busy" enough that the patching almost disappears at a glance and you have a nice solid top.
John TenEyck
10-22-2019, 4:50 PM
Ambrosia maple is sometimes pretty extraordinary, especially when it's also blessed with some figure. I cut some things for a client recently that featured both and wow...really kewel result.

I'm curious about all those "inlays" in that table top. Do tell...

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John, if you don't want that horrible stuff, you can drop it off at my shop for "disposal". :) :D

Jim, I have well over 500 BF of it from 5 silver maple logs I milled a couple of months ago. Some of it has some really nice curly character near the edges, too. I'm not delivering it, but anytime you want to make a trip up to Niagara Falls you are welcome to take whatever will fit in that new Ascent.

John
Jim Becker
10-22-2019, 4:55 PM
Jim, I have well over 500 BF of it from 5 silver maple logs I milled a couple of months ago. Some of it has some really nice curly character near the edges, too. I'm not delivering it, but anytime you want to make a trip up to Niagara Falls you are welcome to take whatever will fit in that new Ascent.

John
Oooh....

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