2009.1 -TABLES

I wanted a coffee table and an end table for my living room. It is incredibly empowering to want something and then to just make it. This is my first extension of the method I used to make the fig tree. I like what is happening, and the technique offers many possibilities. I soda fired the table legs, and then had the glass fabricated.

As an aside, I made the lamp base from porcelain and fired it to cone 10 in the kluge kiln I made from soft firebrick rings, and a lid from three lines of loose bricks held together using rebar through holes in the bricks. Every time I fired the kiln, i had to flip the brick lines because the rebar got hot and sagged.

Rhett George, one of my favorite electrical engineering professors, who also taught me to sail, taught me to use the wood lathe to turn the walnut disk holding the lamp harp. I vividly remember him not swearing during the process. Asked about it, he told me that if he had thought it would help, he would have started with it. Words to think about.

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