Wood crafts anyone?
Core structure of this coffee table can be just about any kind of plywood.
Looks like one mold was made for each 1/3 section of the Y. You could even do that mold out of another piece of wood and clamp it. Wouldn't require vacuum bagging, because it's not a compound curve.
The zebra wood outer veneer was joined after the main structure and cut with a razor at the center, then filled. The sides are cut from one piece of veneer, hollowed, but you could piece smaller veneers.
This coffee table sells for $1,295.00, just to give you an idea of what this kind of work brings.
I will be spending some time next year doing this.
Another project that I'm helping my friend with is making a cutaway 4spd aluminum transmission coffee table with a small electric motor to run a rubber contact wheel on the clutch disc, with LED lights that illuminate the gears, from drilled spots on the inside of the case.
I did all of the cutaway work, so you can see the gears moving. The shifter has a custom stainless handle and lexan bubble round top, and S bend snakes around the boomerang tempered glass, with martian landing gear legs that use the transmission as a base for the table, with four short arms that support the glass top.
So, when guests sit next to the table, I guess is more of an end table, they can play with the shifter and watch it go through the gear selections. I'm trying to decide if I want to make it run something slowly, like a moving lamp shade or something, with some brass links, maybe.
I'll get pics when it's done.
Core structure of this coffee table can be just about any kind of plywood.
Looks like one mold was made for each 1/3 section of the Y. You could even do that mold out of another piece of wood and clamp it. Wouldn't require vacuum bagging, because it's not a compound curve.
The zebra wood outer veneer was joined after the main structure and cut with a razor at the center, then filled. The sides are cut from one piece of veneer, hollowed, but you could piece smaller veneers.
This coffee table sells for $1,295.00, just to give you an idea of what this kind of work brings.
I will be spending some time next year doing this.
Another project that I'm helping my friend with is making a cutaway 4spd aluminum transmission coffee table with a small electric motor to run a rubber contact wheel on the clutch disc, with LED lights that illuminate the gears, from drilled spots on the inside of the case.
I did all of the cutaway work, so you can see the gears moving. The shifter has a custom stainless handle and lexan bubble round top, and S bend snakes around the boomerang tempered glass, with martian landing gear legs that use the transmission as a base for the table, with four short arms that support the glass top.
So, when guests sit next to the table, I guess is more of an end table, they can play with the shifter and watch it go through the gear selections. I'm trying to decide if I want to make it run something slowly, like a moving lamp shade or something, with some brass links, maybe.
I'll get pics when it's done.
