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My Latest Craft Project
I've always liked live edge wood pieces and have thought many times about trying my hand at making something.
About 3 - 4 weeks ago, we were at "Gold Rush" in Rochester, which is a semi annual flea/craft market. One of the vendors always has live edge wood for sale and this year we were there near closing time on Sunday. He offered us a "So I won't have to haul it home again price" - 40% off his original asking price (we had looked at it earlier in the day). This is what we bought: It's a raw piece of oak that I had a vision for... This is our new coffee table for our sunroom: Bought the legs on Amazon, multiple coats of pourable epoxy glaze and I think it came out pretty good for my first attempt. |
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Damn that is really cool looking
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The Amish do that here with select odd pieces of wood like that. And they get big bucks for the furniture they make with it. I saw a table last Saturday with that kind of wood, rough cut but the top was finished, that was 3' wide x 6' long and cost $3200.00. Chairs not included.
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You did a very nice job with the slab. Did you make the legs too?
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Aside from being functional, it serves as a nice decor. Love it.
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The costs of the project:
Wood - $120.00 Legs - $75.00, IIRC (purchased from Amazon - fyrfyter1, my welding skills are extremely crude) Epoxy Glaze Coat - $70.00 (still have about half of it left) Miscellaneous (sanding pads, cheap brushes, containers for measuring the 2 part epoxy...) - $15.00 Many hours of labor to get it done to my satisfaction - Priceless. |
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Nice!
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Wow, That is beautiful.
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Looks nice!
If you’re ever down in Westby, there’s a place called The Big Old Red Shed. Last time I was there a vendor had mucho pieces of live edge wood like that. Don’t remember prices as I was looking for other items at the time.
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67drake
I'm moving to Holmen next year, so Westby would be fairly close. The guy I bought this piece from is in Caledonia (MN), which is even closer to Holmen. Good to know about 2 sources less than 1 hour away though for comparison shopping... |
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