Future project...

[woodbloke]

Having got back late last night from my hols I thought you might be interested to see this little slab of segmented marble (brass inlaid lines) with loads of fossils in it (SWIMBO do like her fossils :roll: )

which I'm going to turn into a suitable small coffee table for the lounge...need to devise a suitably cunning design though first and foremost. Second and foremost, I've got to start scratching around for some suitable timber. Size across flats is 450mm Thoughts anyone? - Rob

 

[Paul Chapman]

Hi Rob,

Probably one of the most important things will be the colour of the wood. How about picking one of the many colours in the piece of marble and looking for something that will be a similar colour (with finish applied).

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[The Shark]

A nice piece of marble, Rob, should turn in to a lovely coffee table.
Can't help you much with design ideas, but I do agree with Paul about matching the colour of the wood.
The piece comes over as quite dark, so IMHO I would go for a lighter wood to contrast this - something along the lines of say maple.
Hope this is of some use to you, and look forward to seeing the finished article.

Malc

PS my youngest son is also a fossil collector, but we are still at the stage of having loads of fossils scattered around his bedroom at the moment!!

 

[Mcluma]

a nice octagon coffee table made out of oak, with the marble as inlay

 

[wizer]

a nice octagon coffee table made out of oak, with the marble as inlay

That came to my mind too.

I love the marble, it's lovely. Hope you had a good time Rob, did you manage a novel or 3?

 

[woodbloke]

wizer wrote:

did you manage a novel or 3?

The Bourne Trilogy, as mentioned in an earlier thread, or at least half of it...really excellent! - Rob

 

[wizer]

oh good, I am still on the 2nd book. I'm a terribly slow reader. The first is excellent isn't it?

 

[Escudo]

Rob said;

I thought you might be interested to see this little slab of segmented marble (brass inlaid lines) with loads of fossils in it (SWIMBO do like her fossils )

Am I to assume this is why your dear wife is so fond of you my friend?

Tee Hee, Tony.

 

[woodbloke]

oh good, I am still on the 2nd book. I'm a terribly slow reader. The first is excellent isn't it?

Really very, very good indeed, highly recommended! One of the best bits is that unlike the films, his girlfriend doesn't end up with a bullet in her skull but turns out to be a economic wheeler-dealer of some magnitude who eventually marries JB...good stuff. If you're about half way thru' the second book I haven't spoilt it for you 'cos that's where I am as well - Rob

 

[Gary S]

I'd vote for Oak too (but then I would, given that I've got a garage full of the stuff to turn into expensive firewood and sawdust!!)

 

[Derek Willis.]

Why not try something along this design, a Drum Table, that I recently finished.
Derek.

 

[Shultzy]

How about an oval / eye shaped table with the marble as the pupil?

 

[devonwoody]

Another thing to consider, is it going to be ornamental or in daily use.

 

[Ironballs]

Choices! Oak would match the yellow of the brass and bring out the warmer tones, maple would be a nice pale contrast and walnut would match the darker elements of the piece

 

[TheTiddles]

Well, I like things to be 'just right' so I'd go with elm to match your cabinet. On the subject of being right, that's not marble, it's limestone, you can't have fossils in marble as it's a metamorph so has been exposed to extreme heat and pressure which removes any fossils, thank god that expensive education came in useful at last, I was beginning to wonder if I'd ever use it...

Aidan

 

[Lord Nibbo]

I've been watching this thread with interest.
It screams "Art Deco" "Art Deco" "Art Deco"

It's an elaborate top and needs an elaborate base, something like this perhaps.

 

[newt]

Rob, dare I mention Elm I know you have some, it would match with the rest of your furniture.

 

[newt]

Rob or some of your oak

 

[woodbloke]

Rob, dare I mention Elm I know you have some, it would match with the rest of your furniture.

Pete - I think that's the decision that SWIMBO came to. Elm would look quite good, I think and design was discussed :wink: the other night and she likes something that Robert Ingham did... I'm not quite sure what I've let myself in for here 8-[ but provided I can get hold of some decent elm from somewhere it ought to turn out well.
The oak has been earmarked for some wall mounted display units in the lounge to go either side of the old fireplace - Rob

 

[woodbloke]

Having had a fabulous run down to Yandles this morning I retruned with this:

a 45mm thick board of air dried English Cherry which I think will be great. There are, as always, quite a lot of defects (checks and splits) in this sort of timber, but there ought to be more than enough for this table and another little project :wink: that Martin the Woodkateer and I cooked up between us. There was a fair selection of Elm but I thought this particular board of cherry looked better.
It was also nice to bump into Chill, another UKWorkshop forum member when we were both trying to decide what particular lump of African Blackwood we ought to buy.
Only slight trouble with the day's outing was that SWIMBO came along for the ride, which did put a dampener on the amount of time I could spend picking over the timber and looking at the tools...talk about kids in a sweetie shop - Rob