This table came from my grandmother, it was given to me probably 40 years ago, i've dragged it around the country never really figuring how to use it properly, it was originally table height but the only thing you could do was to put it in the corner of a room with a pot plant on it - not really my style, but you know how one clings on to things that were precious to others 😥.
A couple of months ago I decided to saw the legs down to make it coffee table height, this worked fine though I still ended up sticking it in the corner of a room.
The acquisition of the pyrography machine & detail sander spurred me on to turn the table into a piece of art.
Its hexagonal shape made it fairly easy to measure out shapes and segment.
I pencilled the detail in then burnt over the designs with the pyrography machine. I decided to leave some wood showing and paint the segments I wanted bright & colourful with a white undercoat.
I really enjoy the painting part of the whole process, just like 'colouring in' really.
Then it was just a case of re-burning some of the edges i'd slapped paint on, varnish it and "bob's yer uncle"!!!
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