Tables And Desks
The brief here was to construct a desk from the remains of this old table and combine it with a bit of reclaimed southern Silky-oak for the legs. Underneath all of this old paint and stain was some rather nice northern Silky-oak, as can be seen in next shots.
The completed desk with a Camphor-laurel drawer box and a gum leaf inlay.
The desk with the offset grain matched drawer.
Gum leaf detail in the Silky-oak desk.
Queensland Maple desk restoration. This large old desk had a number of things that needed attention. Badly worn drawer runners, drawer sides all needed repairs. The old leather insert was to be removed and not replaced. So the top was cleaned up and finished. All in all it came up looking great and is now back in service.
Completing the repairs on the QLD maple desk was this chipped foot which was repaired and reshaped by hand.
Natural or waney edge coffee table in spotted gum.
Reclaimed Spotted gum the raw materials for a coffee table.
Shaping the 1" round tenons on the coffee table.
The finished round wedged tenons.
Bloodwood stripes added another colour to the whole table.
Large refectory style table in reclaimed teak. My client planted the trees of which this timber came from in a New Guinea village when he was a young man. One of the laws in that village where they were planted was, if the trees are cut down than the timber belonged to the person who planted them. So much later in his life that is what happened. The were cut down and the timber was shipped to Australia and I was commissioned to make this table from it.
Leg construction of the refectory table.
Testing the fit of the base.
Wedge detail refectory table.