Our family does a lot of traveling, hiking, biking,
kayaking, beaching (is beaching a word?) and the like. So a few years back we
were walking this beach and I found this really cool piece of driftwood. It was kind of like a bar of soap, it was
oval-ish, it was smooth, but had a texture to it. I walked around the rest of the hike with it in my hand and when
I got back to the car I tossed it into the car door pocket where I toss my cool
finds.
Now I didn’t really think about it for a couple years, saw it
from time to time when I was cleaning out the door pockets (annually to
bi-annually). Fast forward and I’m in The Hardwood Connection in Sycamore, IL and there it is, the big daddy of my driftwood, a large slab
size piece of White Ash. Well of course,
put it in the truck, don’t even bother wrapping it. Ash was perfect because as you sand it the dark part of the grain
seems to be softer than the rest and so the sanding created the smooth yet
‘driftwood’ texture surface.
Well I get home and go to get my driftwood from the door
pocket and its gone. Now I know I would
not have gotten rid of it, so where is it.
I look, sleep a few nights, I look some more, can’t find it...
So from memory I start working the Ash slab trying to
remember everything about the driftwood piece from the day I found it. I decided I wanted to make a floating top
table and wanted to use a contrasting/complementary wood variety for the
base. I sketched up an idea and decided
to try a wood I had not used before for the base (Jatoba (some call it
Brazilian Cherry)). Jatoba has a very
rich tone and contrasts the Ash top perfectly.
So here is the table.
This table is currently for sale at Eyrieatomy.
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