Sometimes a man just has to get away from it all and have some fun. Today was one of those days. I took the day off and had some fun at a bud's rock store, er, uh, stone sales yard. We'd talked awhile back about how to make somethings different customers had asked about. I told him I had some ideas and if'n I got a chance we could destroy some of his inventory tryin'. I made two tables and a bench today. Everything is put together with steel dowels with a little hydraulic cement for leveling. Here's a coffee table I made for the office. No sooner got it inside and stuff jumped on it. Stuff does that when women are around.
Yup, table's heavy, about four hundred and sixty pounds worth of heavy. But then being heavy ain't always a bad thing.
Here's another view. It's kinda funny how you can go through a pile of stones and one or three will just jump up and demand you make them do something special. The stone with the leg was in a pile of stones cut for making walls. That leg would have been amputated if we hadn't had our little meet up. As it was that leg was the most perfect thing for making a table special. The round one, well, it was just easy, wanted to have fun.
OOPS!!!
The bench to the left of the table we also did today. I don't know why more folks don't do more with rocks and dowels. It's a good method of making connections. It's strong. The rocks seem to like it.
Tomorrow afternoon I'll stop back by buds and we'll finish the table out. It'll look good, different, but good. His wife is supposed to get me an umbrella for it. Just to give it a special one of a kind touch. I mean heck, anyone can make a stone table, but hanging an umbrella on it too?