Title apart, provisional coating was made. Actually, I have been out most of the afternoon, so very little done today.
Compare following two photos, first.
These are test pieces, made redundant as a result of my mistakes, and I coated one of them as a trial, with WATCO, a British made coating agent. Satisfied sufficiently with this result I then coated another, which is a redundant snack bed. One of the inserts is seen to be not pararrell to all other lines.
They are shown as follows, for comparison, as before and after.
In this particular instance all inserts are walnut. I will carry an ebony embedded snack bed tomorrow. Note that these photos were taken while oiled surfaces were still wet. Whether I will be liking it tomorrow remains to be seen.
Anyway, back to the title itself. A thought occurred to me that the bed itself can be a lot thinner, say, something like half the current thickness. A plain thin bed for my snacks may well be attractive...
With that sort of thickness, however, it is no longer possible to intersect the legs at either end of the bed because inserts cannot be embedded easily. So, you are immediately faced with the issue of structural stability and rigidity.
Where would you have your legs and how would you fix them firmly to the bed, that sort of things. I do not have an immediate answer. My gut feeling is telling me that the bed will be looking like floating in mid air. Below the bed surface all is currently nebular...
Compare following two photos, first.
These are test pieces, made redundant as a result of my mistakes, and I coated one of them as a trial, with WATCO, a British made coating agent. Satisfied sufficiently with this result I then coated another, which is a redundant snack bed. One of the inserts is seen to be not pararrell to all other lines.
They are shown as follows, for comparison, as before and after.
In this particular instance all inserts are walnut. I will carry an ebony embedded snack bed tomorrow. Note that these photos were taken while oiled surfaces were still wet. Whether I will be liking it tomorrow remains to be seen.
Anyway, back to the title itself. A thought occurred to me that the bed itself can be a lot thinner, say, something like half the current thickness. A plain thin bed for my snacks may well be attractive...
With that sort of thickness, however, it is no longer possible to intersect the legs at either end of the bed because inserts cannot be embedded easily. So, you are immediately faced with the issue of structural stability and rigidity.
Where would you have your legs and how would you fix them firmly to the bed, that sort of things. I do not have an immediate answer. My gut feeling is telling me that the bed will be looking like floating in mid air. Below the bed surface all is currently nebular...