Hey Steemians! I don't have much to talk about tonight, but I wanted to share some awesome pics of two matching tables that I finished up yesterday for a client
I made these bad boys out of some left over Oregon Pine tongue-and-grove boards from a construction project.
Prior to building them, I went to take measurements and found out that not a single corner in this house was square...and we're not talking by millimeters, but by 2ish centimeters or more. Being born and raised in the states, that is just unheard of, and was very difficult for me to swallow.
The areas where they were going, needed to be somewhat precise.
Hmmm...Precise furniture to fit in a not so precise space.
I had no idea how I was going to do it, until the client spoke up and said, "Well, can't you just make the tables unsquare?"...I was shocked and had no idea how to respond to that, so naturally the first words out of my mouth was:
"Uuuhhh...Sure! Why not?"
Yeah.
Bad idea.
Being someone who already over-critiques his own work, my brain was freaking out.
Suddenly I was committed to a job to make two tables that were, yup, you guessed it -
Precisely unsquare.
How in the hell was I supposed to do that?
So I closed my eyes, and whatever happened over the next few days seems to have worked.
Because I ended up with two precisely unsquare tables.
I know, I know...Dead craftsmen and true architects are rolling over in their graves around the entire globe (or flat plane, whichever you believe in), but in the end my clients were thrilled with their new tables.
Check out that shine!
In case you are curious:
The tops were finished out with a homemade stain and covered with about 5 coats of polyurethane, while the bases were coated with a 50/50 mineral spirit/BLO combo with a natural beeswax/mineral oil mixture rubbed to a slight sheen on top.
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