Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Claro Walnut Coffee Table


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One of my coffee tables is for sale in "The Nature Gallery" on Foster street in Dothan. It is made of Black Walnut, which is my favorite wood to work. The slab pictured is made of Claro Walnut, usually reserved for high-end gun stocks and musical instuments. It has the prettiest "quilted grain" I have seen on anything that has come through my workshop.

This shows a "butterfly" used to keep the slab from splitting.

Even though wood has long been cut and dried at the time of construction, it still can expand and contract due to changes in humidity. When it is extremely humid like it is now your solid-wood furniture will swell, sometimes causing drawers to feel tighter or seams in joined-wood to close slightly. In the colder months, just the opposite.

This is a picture of it on a wrought-iron base.


The top is for sale with or without the base, depending on personal taste...

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