Bookmatched Walnut Slab Table

[rob_bell]

Here's a neat project we are just finishing. It is a table made of two beautiful bookmatched slabs of walnut, side by side, spanned by a 9" strip of glass. The legs are 1/2" waterjet cut steel. The bot did all the surfacing, mortising and cut the butterflies with their associated templates. More pictures can be seen here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zomadic...7606371319285/


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[myxpykalix]

beautiful work...I sometimes wonder why woodworkers have such reverence for a piece of wood? And why others can look at stuff like this and not see the beauty in it. Any idea how old this piece of wood is? good job.

[rob_bell]

I'm not sure about the age of these. However the shorter, vertical slab in the background is one half of a pair and is quite old >100yrs from a cemetery and is know to be riddled with bullets!

Once a while back we pulled an odd chunk of metal out and finally figured out that it was part of a car. Fun stuff.

[tkovacs]

Wow, wow, wow. An inspiring work!
Thanks for giving us a look.

[laserguy]

Love the coloring in that close up shot, absolutely beautiful!

[scottcox]

Very nice Rob. I love the unique look that the glass seperation gives.