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Zebrawood Table
Nov 08, 2008
This coffee table was my attempt at a “modern oriental” style and was a present to my daughter Erin. The top was solid zebrawood finished with a coat of clear Danish oil, blond shellac, and 6 coats of wipeon urethane. The base was solid mahogany finished with walnut Danish oil, blond shellac, and 4 coats of urethane. All joints in the base were mortise and tenon.
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This is beautiful, I love the zebrawood. How many boards did you glue together for the top? It almost looks like just two bookmatched pieces.
I'm currently designing my own coffee table and end tables with very similar leg styles as you've got here. Again, beautiful piece, well done.
Thanks for the comments. The top was made from 6 boards. I laid them out and moved them around until I got the grain pattern I was happy with. For the legs, I built a template of the curve, cut it close with a band saw, and then used a router with the template to finish up the cut to make sure all the legs were curved the same.
Really nice project.
I also recently completed a hall table made from zebrawood and found that using hand or machine planes can be a big no no on this material.
Sanding is the order of the day. I bought two boards that measured 13' x 8 1/2" x 2" I resawed and thicknessed them and joined 7 or 8 boards to make up the top(my resaw capacity is only 6" so I had to rip the boards to around 4 1/2")
I still have one of the boards in the rough and its just waiting for the right project!
You have a good eye for proportions (I'm still working on mine!)
Thanks for sharing,
Chaim
That's beautiful. How did you make the legs? I love yr design.
Great finish. How did you get rid any tiny little little pores within the zebrawood. I find with my piece there are a lot of little pores that continue to take away from the entire piece.
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