Strip Table (2012)

Scrap wood, or "offcuts" as people call them - they seem useful but only if you actually use them. After milling all of the wood for the first batch of Therevox ET-4's I was left with a large collection of very thin strips of black walnut. Instead of throwing them away, I decided to turn them into a table.

A few months earlier, Melissa found a very cool metal table base at a garage sale. It was missing a top and we were planning to have a glass one made, but figured it would be perfect for this scrap wood table project.

After laminating about 100 strips of wood into one solid piece, the top was planed perfectly flat but the bottom was left raw and uneven to show the details of the strips. I cut it into a circle on the bandsaw using a custom jig and a step was routered to the edge so it could sit within the round metal frame. I also made a smaller wooden top for the lower part of the table. The whole thing was finished in 3 coats of tung oil, same as the Therevox ET-4's.

This project took useless pieces of wood and a second-hand table without a top and turned it into something we still use today. The table is also a reminder of the first time I ever milled wood and the work that went into the first batch of Therevox ET-4's.