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.
Nice, low key, good story
Fun, a little hokey
Kill it with fire
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.
I vote cool. So I guess that's a Yea.
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.
The epoxy fill makes it look contrived to me, like you added it. But if the customer likes it it's a Yea.
John
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!
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.
Creative opportunity not to be missed. Thanks
Rustic? Well, no. That was not my intention!
Cool story, and it looks great too. At least a thousand times better use of epoxy than a 'river table'.
I like it. A bullet or cross section of a screw could be cool, too.
Erik
Ex-SCM and Felder rep
Nice...I like it! Nice job also on filling in the hole. It doesn't look homogeneous like epoxy, more like ebony or something.
I think it was an outstanding decision! Wow...nice! And it always will have a tale to tell.
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The most expensive tool is the one you buy "cheaply" and often...
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.
I vote yes. I also wonder if you will use iron pipe or hairpin legs?
Rick Potter
DIY journeyman,
FWW wannabe.
AKA Village Idiot.