This project really has no plans. It started a few weeks ago when we wanted to look at their pecky Bolivian walnut. Everything they had was in a shed, stacked to the ceiling. It was a Saturday. The deal primarily with commercial customers. Saturday has a skeleton crew. No fork lift drivers. No way to pick through the piles.
Inside is a showroom, so to speak of live edge planks. Suddenly I hear, "Julie! Come look at this!" I thought I was the wood nut. I turn a corner and there's my SO, with an excited look, pointing at a live edge piece. "It's flamewood, like the island boards. Wouldn't this make a cool coffee table?" What could I say? Here's what we brought home
I thought about pulling the router sled out but all that rot in the middle left me skeptical. BTW, my SO loves the rotted out center and it is my job to preserve it. So the top would only me RO sanded. The plan is to put glass on top so the wood underneath just needs to look good.
After sanding and with mineral spirits applied
Next was beefing up the splits. The SO nixed quilted maple I picked out for butterfly splines because it was too bold and I nixed the precious ebony I have. So I went with pecky Bolivian walnut hoping to make a connection with the entertainment center.
I planed and sanded the first spline and went to work on the second. After those two were done I applied some BLO to match the rest of the slab.
This is what the workbench looked like after all that
Now I have to figure out how to do the legs...