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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Fantastic table... really beautiful, Edge!
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Gene
climber
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Edge,
Flip that over and you'd have two sweet barstools with a raised foot rest.
That is a magnificent piece of artwork.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Edge, that is stunning. What a talent!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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What crazy mofo came up with that one...?
Some crazy Frog about 300 years ago. And there is more to it than you might think at first blush.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2012 - 05:38pm PT
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Holy Shizznik!!
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cms
Trad climber
under the nearest boulder
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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what is the function of a table like that?
Manzanita, are you retarded, or do you just play one on SuperTopo?
The function of that table is to collect drool. ;-)
ps
Nice entertainment center! But I think you spent too much time in your
'herb garden' before you took the ent cnt pic. ;-)
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Just finished setting up my backyard shop, now ready for some real prototyping....
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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The Deuce is back!!!
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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Thanks everyone for the kind words. Manzanita man, it is a dining table. 29 1/2" high, to hold a 1/2" elliptical glass top 102" long x 44" wide. Comfortable seating for 8, or cozy seating for 10.
Really nice table, Edge, that took a long time to build, I hope, and that's some really nice material you're working with - way too nice to botch a cut.
Reilly, I have guesstimated that I have about 300 hours total, 1 3/4 gallons of glue, 75 SF of crotch mahogany veneer, two sheets of bending plywood, two sheets of 1/2" MDF, plus assorted other veneers. I completely underestimated the time necessary for all of the processes involved, but after a point it is more about producing a killer final piece than making money. Or so I keep trying to trick myself into believing.
And now for something completely different: I need to take mental breaks from the tedium of furniture, so I aquired a deer hide from my brother in law to try something I had never done before.
I began by scraping off the meat and membrane, then soaked the hide for a week in a bath of water and garden lime. After this I was able to remove the hair.
Next I built a frame and stretched the raw hide out to dry.
Did some layout...
And made some shaman drums with cedar frames, and some rattles of deer hide, elk leather, pine, and coyote or fox fur trim.
This pic also shows an additional turtle shell rattle, a sea shell rattle, a buffalo horn rattle with carved eagle, and a buffalo hide drum.
just a little something to keep me sane...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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just a little something to keep me sane...
Edge, I hate to break it to you but you lost that battle long ago! :-)
Thank god for lunatics like you to inspire the rest of us!
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Zander
climber
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Mar 10, 2012 - 10:53pm PT
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Edge, Im loving your stuff. I've done some inlay and some leather work, just enough to know how hard it is. Nice job bro.
One of my clients called me. She wanted a concrete table for the yard with a fire pit in the middle. Then she called me back and said her son wanted to be able to cook on the fire. So we talked it over and I suggested we put a Webber into the middle, they could build a fire or do some cooking. Take a look....
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 11, 2012 - 01:33am PT
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Zander, the wife said yer table/barbie is "cool!" That's high praise! :-)
I concur. Really nice job of coloring and finishing the concrete. The
table looks a little weak though. HaHaHa!
I just happened to be at a dinner at a house I built a 'domed' kitchen in about
8 years ago. I never took any decent pictures of it but this does give the
general impression. The dome isn't as 'steep' as it looks in this:
At night though it is pretty cool IMHO - kind of a SoCal northern lights effect:
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Mar 13, 2012 - 05:03am PT
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a buddy of mine makes a living knocking these together.
i take no credit other than having delivered
a few pieces to galleries and homes around the west
and toted a few loads of the raw materials out of the woods.
he's a congenial fellow. ya he climbs, rides and runs ultras,
and fosters a guild like opportunity for the neighbors ... this guy paints fishies:
i'm looking for the piece that will rise from beneath a low table,pierce the glass and form a short shaded lamp
really long drills well aimed allow the threading of power to the fixture.
i like the way the assembly gets shaved off in plane by a chainsaw mill,
and the glass can be shaped irregularly as seems fit.
there's a lot of serendipity involved in the hunt. it takes an eye to spot the potential ...
"hey, there's a rocker arm!" ... a lot of fun if you're strong like ox.
one of the juniper brothers passed away a few years ago, but i'll always remember his wisdom: "you know, you put together a few nice pieces, get them just so, but you add one more piece
and it becomes a pile of firewood."
lee's joinery skills are amazing, rock solid and camo'ed. if a branch is called for
to balance out a piece, it can be inserted in a way that defies detection.
a whole lot of manipulating parts, holding angles in space with three hands while scratching chin,
trial and (no) error fitting takes place. pretty awkward ad hoc eyeballing compared to machining.
there's a lot of takedown involved, and intricate sanding in tough little crevices so "masks up."
great bouquet if you have a nose for juniper dust. spraying the finish not so much,
but it's a thrill to watch such color emerge
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adatesman
climber
philadelphia, pa
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Mar 22, 2012 - 01:20pm PT
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Haven't noticed this thread bumped in a while, so today's project is drinking beer. Erm, i mean an attempt to finish the stucco on this 150+ year old schoolhouse. I got all but this section done and painted between early Nov and mid Dec last year (~3500 pounds worth) before the weather turned cold. Kinda enjoying being outside and the change from spending most days repairing the original plaster walls inside.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Mar 22, 2012 - 01:27pm PT
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I wanna see an upside-down root flare somehow used as a dining table.
Everyone uses root flares right side up, why not upside down?
You could countersink it for stability.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Mar 22, 2012 - 02:26pm PT
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ya, in that same place where the juniper comes from ... i was tripping on some BIG pine roots that had spread out perfectly flat between layers of sandstone. then when they tip over for lack of purchase, this mandala of root pattern gets weathered so exquisitely you dare not touch it.
and lacking a sky hook, the hundreds of pounds over tough ground dissuades.
but we all know the drill ... from coveting boulders to die for if you could just get them home.
ekat, it's indeed homestate stuff, there's a clue tucked into the photo credit
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 22, 2012 - 02:43pm PT
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A joint I've worked on for years is up for sale in case anyone is interested:
Price: $78,800,000
Est. payment: $463,323/mo
Bedrooms: 7
Bathrooms: 10 full, 3 partial
Property type: Single-Family Home
Size: 47,000 Square Feet
Lot: 8.0 acres
It also has the largest residential swimming pool in California and a very
nice trout pond (stocked) with a 25' waterfall.
Over-the-top-opulence
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Mar 22, 2012 - 02:51pm PT
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it's a wide open world, when you throw away the square.
a refined sense of proportion and balance is called for.
this approach could be hybridized with "sling seat" style, where corner pockets on leather patches are hooked over horns to make hammocky things, and then (juniper berry?) filled pouches attached to provide bolsters in the right places.
this invites some way asymmetric forms like not so side by side "love" seats, properly sized/positioned for each partner. well, i mean ... the word apparatus comes to mind
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