Given the knowledge and ideas that I've received here before, I figured I would ask a couple questions *before* cutting wood this time. I've ran through several ways to approach this, and I'm in paralysis by analysis. I apologize if this is a bit "stream of consciousness". Opinions welcomed.
I'm designing a console table for my open living room. There's an eave that juts out 15 1/2" from the rest of the wall. Since it's right behind my couch, it seems like a great place for a console table. The end of the couch to where a 28" high console table would hit the eave is around 7 1/2', but I plan to leave about a foot gap there anyways for some outlet/phone charging stuff we plan to kind of tuck back there. Bottom line is that the current plan is the table to be about 6' to 6'4" long, 15" wide and about 28" tall. The end that is exposed I was planning on doing around a 12" waterfall drop. I like the look, but in combination with the A Frame legs I intend to use, it would also prevent my 2yo from crawling back there (maybe ).
The issue I'm running into is for the top. Being new to the craft, I was blown away the first time I saw QS Walnut. I bought this pretty cool 9" wide board that I want to highlight. I realized it wouldn't be wide enough for what I wanted to do, so I found another piece of QS that's maybe not quite as impressive but I had planned to cut a couple of 3" strips off it and bookmatch the outsides of the main board. It's a little questionable as the one end of the smaller board are bowed by 3/8", and I'm unfortunately needing to use almost the whole length (my original plans were shorter without the waterfall, so I figured the bow wouldn't be a problem). Both boards are a real 1 1/8" right now.
Since all of the edges won't be visible (against the wall, couch, and the waterfall should be pretty much in line with the couch end), I was pondering having the main 9" board resawn and laminating it onto my other walnut pieces. I guess I could use about any substrate with some edge banding or something. I've never done a veneer like this before and just am not sure about what a good way to go about this (or not!) is.
Also, since the span between legs (attached a picture of the ones I plan to use) will be about 6' or so, I believe that's a bit too far of a span for the boards I have. I was planning to just do a simple M&T rectangular leg in the middle to provide additional support, attached with figure 8s. Any other opinions welcome.
Sorry for the mess - wife just snapped a quick pic for context and we just had another baby so there's a bit of a mess!