CUSTOMER GALLERY
150 year-old Bog Elm Dining Table
Andy from Manor Wood Designs handcrafted this amazing dining table using pieces of Elm he recovered from an old bog.
After meticulous washing and drying, the cleaned up wood was very porous and soft. Andy stabilised the wood using resin by flooding it with an epoxy resin used in marine projects.
Once the slab was stabilised, Andy cast the river and infills using GlassCast 50 pigmented with metallic pigments to create a shimmering effect in the turquoise/blue river.
The next step was flatting and polishing the slab to this beautiful finish you can see in the photographs and finally mounting on to bespoke X-legs.
You can see how Andy created this beautiful piece of furniture and many more by heading over to his YouTube Channel by clicking the link below!
Another example of your incredible work Andy, thanks for sharing!
ABOUT MANOR WOOD
I have been designing furniture from dead standing trees for many years - this includes me felling the trees, milling and storing the timber for up to 5 years before starting to use the material in furniture.
I came across a fantastic English Walnut tree and after storing for many years it had large shakes and cracks. A friend of mine Chris Horne, who works with composites bracing yachts, cars etc. on the Isle of Wight, saw me working with the walnut and suggested a resin instead of traditional bowties and filler I was using.
I came across GlassCast now called GlassCast 3 and started experimenting with it. My son recommended that I put a video on youtube and in just a couple of months it had £1.8m views. This led me to talk to Easy Composites about a new product coming called GlassCast 50, I have never looked back, the way I see wood has changed for ever ...
CONTACT INFORMATION
| Website | www.manorwooddesigns.co.uk |
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| YouTube | www.youtube.com/manorwooddesigns |
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| Patreon | www.patreon.com/manorwooddesigns |
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| Etsy | www.etsy.com/manorwooddesigns |
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| www.facebook.com/manorwooddesigns |
| @manorwooddesigns |
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ABOUT MANOR WOOD
I have been designing furniture from dead standing trees for many years - this includes me felling the trees, milling and storing the timber for up to 5 years before starting to use the material in furniture.
I came across a fantastic English Walnut tree and after storing for many years it had large shakes and cracks. A friend of mine Chris Horne, who works with composites bracing yachts, cars etc. on the Isle of Wight, saw me working with the walnut and suggested a resin instead of traditional bowties and filler I was using.
I came across GlassCast now called GlassCast 3 and started experimenting with it. My son recommended that I put a video on youtube and in just a couple of months it had £1.8m views. This led me to talk to Easy Composites about a new product coming called GlassCast 50, I have never looked back, the way I see wood has changed for ever ...
CONTACT INFORMATION
| Website | www.manorwooddesigns.co.uk |
|---|
| YouTube | www.youtube.com/manorwooddesigns |
|---|
| Patreon | www.patreon.com/manorwooddesigns |
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| Etsy | www.etsy.com/manorwooddesigns |
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| www.facebook.com/manorwooddesigns |
| @manorwooddesigns |
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Please share any questions or comments you may have about this video tutorial.
