Myself, Hay, No.1 Son and No.2 Son (who is back from university for a week) manhandled the live edge ash slab table top into the living room so it can thoroughly acclimatise and dry before I perform any further surgery on it later in the year.
We placed it on an old table with some blocks of 4x2 under each leg to help spread the weight.
As it stands, it will seat 10, but it really does need 50cm taking off it and making into an 8 seater, which is about the maximum we usually have at Christmas. Hay, however, is liking the current length of 2.5m. Also the ends need routering into a pleasing shape. What I like about it is the fact that it is unique and there's no other table top exactly the same.
I visited the local forge on Friday to see if they could make a suitable base that resembled a foreshortened tree trunk with spreading roots and spreading branches, like the example below.
However, they though it beyond their capability in terms of the design. They did say, however, that providing I could could come up with a series of flat, interlocking templates made from MFD, or something similar, they would be prepared to give it a go.
What I might do is approach the company that makes the tables in the above image and ask if they supply the bases separately. Given the thinness of the table in the image above, I would probably require two bases to adequately support the length and weight of the ash slab. The branches of the 'tree' would need to be welded to a suitable steel spreader to even out the weight.
I can't wait to oil the wood to see the grain spring out, but that will be much later in the year. At least the garage is now clear for the Triumph GT6 project.
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