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I made these finials to go on top of the farm rollers I’ve mentioned before. The oak body of the finial is turned from a solid piece of wood. I like the checking (cracks) you can achieve with a solid piece of wood….the outside surface drys more quickly than the inside core of the wood so it cracks. If you were to laminate several smaller pieces of wood together and than turn the piece you would get little or no checking which is generally the most desired affect but not for me, I like to see the grain and nature of a single block of wood. The shape of the finial was inspired by a classical urn shape, often fashioned in metal and seen on old European entry gates, in stone on the roof of 18th century Palladian styled manor house or furniture…they’re everywhere. The zinc leaves are cut from salvaged roofing material. I just cut random size leaves, gathered them together in a pattern designed to represent the agave plant…..drilled the top of the urn and forced them in. You can use these in pairs to create symmetry or singly in another composition. Outside, a pair of these on the turned oak columns could give a garden path a little zest.
The agave plant was the inspiration for the zinc leaves.
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Look at this killer industrial table base. A Custom size wood top dinning table could transform this old factory relic into a handsome one of a kind dining table … A zinc top would work too…
Here is a sample of a zinc top I tried just to play around with it.
The color of the zinc works well with the old sage green paint.
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One of my favorite things about being an antiques dealer and designer is finding things that inspire me. I bought a pair of these not knowing what they were, just that I thought they were beautifully worn solid white oak “rollers” of some sort. I later found out that they were used in fields to compact the soil after the seeds were sown to keep the moisture in the soil. I cut off the stems on the ends so they stand on end more steadily. They make great pedestals for urns or finials. They have a very ” Rough Lux ” look.
I had a request for a game table….
” Could I do something in Zinc?” Of course.
So after the details were discussed, we made this table. After all the finishes were applied, we meticulously used masking tape to cover up what would be the zinc squares and painted the black squares…still not sure if I wouldn’t have put a border of a thin black edge around the game board section. They love it though, and that’s what counts.
