Sculpted Furniture. Handcrafted Timber Tables from Australian Hardwood Timbers
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Handcrafted timber coffee tables, solid wood sculpted furniture.
Sculpted Australian hardwood timber furniture, unique handcrafted contemporary design furniture with excellent balance, flow, function, strength, and weight qualities.
Australian hardwood timbers are recognised world wide as the first choice for durable, attractive, diverse colours and resistance to abrasion.
Although not super hard, Camphor Laurel, Morton Bay Fig, Jacaranda, Cedar, Liquid Amber, join the ranks of Sculptables as they are tough enough.
Exotic Timber Tables
Coffee Tables from Sculptables.
Fully sculpted timber coffee tables, guaranteed not to come apart at the joints.
The timber for these coffee tables are sourced from the local urban forest around Emerald Beach NSW AUSTRALIA.
I help arbourist's remove the heavy timber sections from their work sites and recycle them into sculpted coffee tables.
To make coffee tables this sculpted way requires years of patience while waiting for the green timber to dry.
A further long wait is experienced as the chosen protective clear finish takes two months to dry before the coffee table can be polished and waxed.
Our sculptural techniques making coffee tables have improved during the 15 years this apprenticeship has evolved, and now timber forks weighing 1200kg or more are sculpted away so that two people can carry them, or one person can nudge them around the lounge room. As you can imagine, the grain in large timber forks are interlocked, or what others call fiddle back, compression timber, knotty, birds eye, wavy, some of my Camphor Laurel coffee tables have all of the above. After years the grain striation becomes more appealing as the large surface area of these coffee tables is harmonious in its expressing the natural subtle forces still present inside the wood. I have dutifully flattened the surface of all my tables only to find that the striating cannot be tamed, now I desire the effect, as the table forms its own sculptural relief, and I have not been displeased with these natural phenomenon as the table surface remains serviceable.