Table Top V2

The original concrete top just caved on me after 4 years of my boots plopping on it. Time for a new one. This top was made from salvaged redwood we repurposed from a small table. The table was purchased for a very fair price from a 60 year old hippie living in Ashland Oregon. It had about 30 years of stories marked in it that the man had summed up without taking a breath, in about 5 minutes. We couldn't bear to tell him the next day it would be raw lumber. Here's to thirty more years of new stories.

Old trusty started as some steel bar welded, ground and polished. The frame was intended to surround the table top so you could drop whatever solid surface you wanted into it. Construction started in 2005.

On the left is the original concrete table top in the steel frame. On the right is our hippie friends offering.

Did you ever notice how everyone at a party usually ends up hanging out in the kitchen? They're not just for cooking you know. 

After a whole lot of hand sawing, planing and sanding we had the overall shape of it. The final touch was Amanda's staining skills she learned in Japan when she was a child apprentice to Samurai Woodworking masters. She also does a damn good job reading the label on the can.

Project finished 10/14/09