This coffee table was another fun
project.
The customer loves math. I mean he really really loves math and patterns. He had the idea of two meshing ellipses representing the lives of two becoming one in marriage. He wanted to incorporate the idea into a wedding gift for his daughter. Together we designed this idea for a coffee table.
In order to get the bonze patina on the table I needed to polish and then heat the whole structure to about 550 degrees. Not having an oven that big and being part red neck I created a huge fire in my garden enclosed in recycled sheet metal and waited till I had a large bed of coals. Then I carefully laid the table pieces on the coals covered it with sheet metal and let the heat soak in for three hours. After many checks with the infrared thermometer I removed the cover and gradually let all the pieces cool. The whole structure was clear coated and all the pieces including the ½" thick glass was shipped to Calgary.
The customer loves math. I mean he really really loves math and patterns. He had the idea of two meshing ellipses representing the lives of two becoming one in marriage. He wanted to incorporate the idea into a wedding gift for his daughter. Together we designed this idea for a coffee table.
In order to get the bonze patina on the table I needed to polish and then heat the whole structure to about 550 degrees. Not having an oven that big and being part red neck I created a huge fire in my garden enclosed in recycled sheet metal and waited till I had a large bed of coals. Then I carefully laid the table pieces on the coals covered it with sheet metal and let the heat soak in for three hours. After many checks with the infrared thermometer I removed the cover and gradually let all the pieces cool. The whole structure was clear coated and all the pieces including the ½" thick glass was shipped to Calgary.