AnonymousCoward
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Hi GPH,
- Was considering doing this myself, as both myself and the wife had contacted a dozen custom furniture places re getting it made. They either didn't get back to us, quoted ridiculous prices, or refused to let us talk to the actual people who'd be doing the work (i.e. they were subcontracting it out). We wanted to talk to whoever was going to be doing the work to explain what we wanted and also get their opinions on what would work well. We had been looking at "cheap" tables we could buy, and just throw away the top and then put ours over the frame. Luckily we found the firm that did the work - I think they did a far better job than I would have been able to, and in a fraction of the time!
- The frame is recycled timber, but not an existing table frame - they build a custom one to support the top using reclaimed timber. They matched the wood to the brown-ish colour of the inlays on the panels. I want to say it's Elm, but that wouldn't be right (Elm is lighter). I'll ask what they ended up using
- Make sure all your panels are the same depth. Most Australian boxes are 11mm, but some (e.g. Meshach) are 9-10mm, and all of the overseas stuff I have (French, and the odd NZ, Spanish etc. box) are 9mm deep. They basically said it all needs to be the same depth, to fix to a supporting base, or it's going to cost a bomb to sand down all the panels to a uniform depth, whilst keeping the overall surface flat. In the end we just handed over a bunch of Australian boxes to keep the overall surface flat.
I'll take some more pictures and we can discuss at the lunch on 4th July.
