Start the clock!!

[michaelgarner]

Hello friends,
A while ago I took a poll on three projects to build and a hall table was picked by my North Carolina Woodworker friends. It has been a long time coming but I finally picked up the wood from a good friend in Vermont (we were deployed in Afghanistan in 05) it is Tiger Maple from a tree that he took down on his 15 acres of land. I am going to start this next week and will post progress as I get farther.

Here is a link to the original post.

http://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/showthread.php?t=8232

I was going to try and acquire ebony for the black accents, but will use homestead trans-fast dye to ebonize the accent pieces and legs.

http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?familyid=760

If you have any suggestions/questions before I dive in let me know.

here are a couple of pics of the wood, whats you alls best secrets to make the tiger stripes jump out?

 

[jeff...]

Should turn out nice Michael, glad to see your going to use dye instead of stain.

 

[dick541]

Goto get up and go to get it ready for the contest. Not to much time left now.
dick

 

[NCPete]

BLO. BLO. remember how the mineral spirits made the curl jump out in the wood we actually culled from the kitchen job??? If you want to experiment with it, I think I still have a small piece you could slice up to experiment with.