Deck is long since finished. Under a new roof.
But the furniture slabs aren’t quite dry enough and the furniture maker has moved out of his shed with kiln…
So this morning we went to pick up the Tallowwood slabs for the island bench and outdoor table.
Brought them back to my in laws and put them into our makeshift container kiln… it was pretty warm in there today on a cool overcast day, as the weather warms up it should do a good job.
Each slab weighs around 100kg so it was fun getting them in with a 75 year old! Hope I’m that strong when I get to that age.
<br />We’re getting close…
First piece delivered and fitted today!
Tallowwood island bench top.
Very nice!
(I don't pay enough to be allowed to press the button)
Those splits/cracks might get worse over time. You can negate that by cutting 'butterfly' shaped double dovetail thingies into it.
I think the word dyna-ti is scrambling for is bowties.
We went with the Tallowwood for the bench instead of Blackbutt as it's apparently less prone to splitting... I guess we'll see.
Very nice 🙂
Three new Tallowwood desks.
All the same but can't be bothered to go through the upload process again.
Very nice,and very useful 😀
6 chairs next then ?
Bed next.
Already have chairs.
I think the word dyna-ti is scrambling for is bowties.
Butterfly keys is another name for them. I’ve got a book about a Japanese furniture maker who uses them, which I bought about 30 years ago, and they’re called Butterfly keys in there. I’d never heard of them before.
Well it's been over a year since the last update.
Furniture maker said he would deliver the next item the weekend before Xmas. But we were away. Then he was away. Then his wife had a baby. Then he had some other excuse. Next we heard it was June and he was going to deliver the weekend after we left for 6 weeks!
We got back in late July but he was too busy. Then I get a message saying he's been in hospital and won't be able to work for 3 weeks...but I can pick up from his mill.
So tonight I went and collected a bed and an outdoor table (with some difficulty due to the size of the Ute tray!)
Will need to oil it but at least we have it now!
He has some interesting projects in the wings too! 
First coat of oil on the table and it's come up nicely.
Wonderful! They look really great. I'm also having big deck envy
Cheers.
I do have a huge deck, cuzzy bro 😉
