We inherited a rotting wood pile (probably been there for at least 10 years and completely hidden by brambles) with the house and right at the bottom were two huge pieces of rough oak. We scraped them off, dried them out and stored them. Earlier this year OH decided we needed a coffee table and made quite a nice one from the best piece, plus odds and ends from the rest of the pile, which then became shelves, stools and finally firewood. Enter my son who spent most of his holiday with us de-bugging, etc our two PCs and two laptops. He had admired the table and OH gave it to him in payment, delivered on our trip to the UK last month.
Unfortunately that left us with no coffee table, a very scrappy piece of oak, nothing suitable for legs, etc. So, after many hours in his workshop with a planer and sander, drills and pegs, some inventive work with two smaller pieces of oak we scrounged from a neighbour clearing out his barn, the final wormy but half reasonable piece we had saved "just in case", pots of wood filler and half a large tin of Briwax we have come up with this. Probably not everyone's cup of tea but certainly a one off!
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