Five AAAAA Musical grade
quilted Maple,
quarter sawn Walnut,
Padauk and Ebony. This is a beautiful piece of wood that seemingly floats over its arched base. The legs are hand planed with a compound
Dado joint. The 7/8th inch Quilted Maple top was planed down on the edges to give it more lightness. The legs were designed as a Walnut-Padauk-Walnut fusion, in order to work as a continuous transition to the Padauk arches, which are the key design element. The cross members are connected to the main arches with Ebony square hand carved faceted plugs.
The beauty of the piece lies in its simple elegance, it is five pieces of wood connected to the legs with a sense of seeming effortlessness. Paradoxically, the piece is quite complicated and unique in its construction in that there are no right angles with which to reference true square or true plumb. The two basic techniques used by the artist to achieve this is to establish true square on a separate board to which he uses as a gluing matrix and through the extensive use of a carpenters level to achieve a plumb line and a flat plane for the top. The basic construction techniques include compressed dowels to attach the top to the base, through dado joints to connect the arch to the legs and mortise and tenon to connect the front legs to the back legs. This table was finished in five coats of hand rubbed Tung Oil.
Care instructions: A high quality furniture oil with UV protection is recommended for the base and top periodically.
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