Recovering from My Walnut Slab Disaster
My first tentative steps to claw back from destroying a beautiful slab of live-edge walnut…
In my previous post I described how I destroyed a gorgeous piece of live-edged walnut. My original goal for the walnut was to make a coffee table to show off the beauty (I assumed) of the grain hidden within:
I had resawn the slab to try and get two 7/8” thick boards that I planned to glue along the straight edge, and hopefully get a nice symmetrical book-matched grain pattern. I was really looking forward to it.
But I had not set up by bandsaw correctly, and the blade began to wander as I cut. Perhaps the tension was too low, perhaps I did not set up the blade correctly on the wheels, I’m still not entirely sure. But I know it was my setup, because a properly adjusted bandsaw should cut right through this slab straight and true, with little cleaning up to do afterwards.
Instead of getting two boards with flat and parallel faces, I ended up with weird trapezoidal, wedge-shaped…
