Is this nuts? Yea or nae?

[johnny means]

So these walnuts ended up stuck in the crotch of the tree and stayed there until we resawed it. The customer thought it would be cool to exhibit the slab as it was in nature.

[Doug Garson]

I vote cool. So I guess that's a Yea.

[Mark Hockenberg]

I vote yea. I've done SOO much pristine, consistent grain stuff... I'm starting a walnut top now and just picked some knotty boards with great figure.

[John TenEyck]

The epoxy fill makes it look contrived to me, like you added it. But if the customer likes it it's a Yea.

John

[Dan Friedrichs]

That's neat - I assume you filled the "nut" with clear epoxy then backfilled the rest of the defect with black epoxy?

I agree with John that this particular defect sets of my "river table with fake plastic frogs and marbles set in epoxy"-detector, but only because it's SO symmetric that it's almost incredulous that you found it that way. But that seems like an unfair assessment, because you DID find it that way!

I like rustic walnut. Neat!

[Patrick Kane]

I did something very similar, only i had a walnut shell/husk lodged in a bark inclusion atone point in the board. I filled the void with slightly tinted epoxy, and i like it. Sounds like your situation is pretty similar.

I can see how some wouldnt like it, but ive seen several pieces where the furniture maker carved a relief of the tree species' leaves/fruit into the finished piece and i liked it a lot.

[David Utterback]

Creative opportunity not to be missed. Thanks

[Frank Pratt]

Cool story, and it looks great too. At least a thousand times better use of epoxy than a 'river table'.

[John K Jordan]

So these walnuts ended up stuck in the crotch of the tree and stayed there until we resawed it. The customer thought it would be cool to exhibit the slab as it was in nature.

Ha, I found one almost exactly like that a few months ago, but in a smalish turning blank I cut rather in a board. The nut in mine was not in as good a shape as yours.

JKJ

[Erik Loza]

I like it. A bullet or cross section of a screw could be cool, too.

Erik

[Jacob Reverb]

Nice...I like it! Nice job also on filling in the hole. It doesn't look homogeneous like epoxy, more like ebony or something.

[Edwin Santos]

I like it. A bullet or cross section of a screw could be cool, too.

Erik

Definitely a Texan :)

[Jim Becker]

I think it was an outstanding decision! Wow...nice! And it always will have a tale to tell.

[Mel Fulks]

I think of the fill as nouget. With out the fill it would always have some food stuck in it. It's an interesting shape ,without
info I'm not sure I would have known what it was.

[Rick Potter]

I vote yes. I also wonder if you will use iron pipe or hairpin legs? :p

[Rich Engelhardt]

Is this nuts? Yea or nae?OMG - you even have to ask??!!!???!

Yea, Yea, Yea, Yea, Yea, Yea, Yea, Yea, Yea, Yea, Yea, Yea, Yea, Yea, Yea, Yea, Yea, a thousand time Yea, !!! :D

Neatest thing I've seen in a long time.

[Jacob Reverb]

Nice...I like it! Nice job also on filling in the hole. It doesn't look homogeneous like epoxy, more like ebony or something.

May I ask what you used as filler for the resin? Ancient Chinese secret? :D

[Mark Gibney]

I'll tell you what's nuts - when I looked at the first photo on this thread I tilted my computer to get rid of the glare :rolleyes:

[Mark Daily]

I also vote “yes”- looks very cool!

[Bill Dufour]

The local semi-pro baseball team is called "The Nuts".
Bill D

[Bert McMahan]

I vote nay, its' not nuts- it's a single nut.

;)

[David Eisenhauer]

Yes. I like it. Don't believe I have seen one before.

[johnny means]

May I ask what you used as filler for the resin? Ancient Chinese secret? :D

It's regular old West System epoxy with Black TransTint.