Sculpting a Table

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Published 2021-02-11
Rotted wood can be extremely challenging to work with, but it can actually be pretty awesome in the end! This wood was heavily spalted. Which is a fancy word for a specific type of fungus/rot. Let me know what you think of the final design!
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0.00 Intro
0:27 Rough Cutting Before Carving
1:23 Bandsaw Circle Jig
2;24 Power Carving With Kutzall and Angle Grinder
4:37 Detail Carving and Smoothing
5:35 Hand Shaping With Rasps and Sander
6:45 Bad Idea
7:15 Fixing Bad Idea
8:19 Finishing With Seal A Cell
10:10 Suspicious 'Hole'
11:36 Spalted Maple Top
12:46 Finishing Spalted Maple Table Top
13:08 Mounting The Table Top On Pedestal
13:39 Product Photography Shots At Home