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Artists Fill Tables’ Cracks With Sea Shells, Stones And Starfish
Tables made from raw lumber, while beautiful, often have little natural imperfections that need to be filled up or removed. Woodcraft By Design, a creative woodworking studio in Auckland, New Zealand, solves this problem by filling those holes with crystal-clear inlays that let you see the shells, stones, leaves or even bugs embedded within.
Inlays like this are often created using clear resin, which dries hard and durable. This material has loads of fascinating applications one tinkerer used it to turn his table into a beautiful glow-in-the-dark work of art!
More info: woodcraftbydesign.co.nz
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I wonder how he does it.
great idea!
Beautiful works! :)
i wonder what is the non-coloured thing that he uses to fill
One of the bosses I worked for had a bar counter made of resin with embedded old LP records in it. A friend of mine has a bathroom washbasin top made the same way with embedded sea sand and sea shells in it.
Awesome
How de do dat??
beautiful and exotic
good idea, looks great
Pretty
I have decided that when people post negative comments about DIY projects like this, they do it simply because they are either jealous that they didn't think of it or they are just assholes, pure and simple. If you don't like someone's blood, sweat and tears piece of work, MOVE ON, but leave your shitty comments to yourself. You serve no purpose but to hurt the artist's feelings!!!!
You mean kind of like the way you left negative comments about not only someone's comments but about the person(s) themselves. Are you the pot or the kettle?
that is amazing.
My mum and step-dad did this with a macrocarpa slab when we lived on Waiheke Island. It was our dining room table for years, such a beautiful idea.
beautiful, the chess table makes me happy. the undersea magical scenes are so gorgeous.
New diy project added to the list
great idea, although I would think of a better than sea theme
go on then
Post pictures on Bored Panda when you do :) I think many would love to see the finished work.
I'm not saying that I can do something like that, just that I'm not really found of a sea theme here and if I would be doing it, I would probably chose something different. I wonder how would some flowers look for example (since leaves work, maybe flowers could too), also I remember glow resin tables which were awesome. Don't get me wrong, I really like the work here. I think some are beautiful (especially the 4 and the one with the sea weed-so realistic!) but this with big starfish looks like those cheap sea souvenir, and I'm not really found of this look
Ingenious.
It looks so real
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Nice idea, but the tables are just ugly, artist should bring this into 2015.
I wonder how he does it.
great idea!
Beautiful works! :)
i wonder what is the non-coloured thing that he uses to fill
One of the bosses I worked for had a bar counter made of resin with embedded old LP records in it. A friend of mine has a bathroom washbasin top made the same way with embedded sea sand and sea shells in it.
Awesome
How de do dat??
beautiful and exotic
good idea, looks great
Pretty
I have decided that when people post negative comments about DIY projects like this, they do it simply because they are either jealous that they didn't think of it or they are just assholes, pure and simple. If you don't like someone's blood, sweat and tears piece of work, MOVE ON, but leave your shitty comments to yourself. You serve no purpose but to hurt the artist's feelings!!!!
You mean kind of like the way you left negative comments about not only someone's comments but about the person(s) themselves. Are you the pot or the kettle?
that is amazing.
My mum and step-dad did this with a macrocarpa slab when we lived on Waiheke Island. It was our dining room table for years, such a beautiful idea.
beautiful, the chess table makes me happy. the undersea magical scenes are so gorgeous.
New diy project added to the list
great idea, although I would think of a better than sea theme
go on then
Post pictures on Bored Panda when you do :) I think many would love to see the finished work.
I'm not saying that I can do something like that, just that I'm not really found of a sea theme here and if I would be doing it, I would probably chose something different. I wonder how would some flowers look for example (since leaves work, maybe flowers could too), also I remember glow resin tables which were awesome. Don't get me wrong, I really like the work here. I think some are beautiful (especially the 4 and the one with the sea weed-so realistic!) but this with big starfish looks like those cheap sea souvenir, and I'm not really found of this look
Ingenious.
It looks so real
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Nice idea, but the tables are just ugly, artist should bring this into 2015.