Our latest ebay purchase

[julianf]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261193751094

And, yes, i have posted in the correct forum section...

: )

[Head Womble]

Pray tell.

[K.H]

Rip all that green stuff off, burn the wood and you are left with four pieces of lovely slate

[1958steveflying]

Rip all that green stuff off, burn the wood and you are left with four pieces of lovely slate

5 !

[K.H]

Rip all that green stuff off, burn the wood and you are left with four pieces of lovely slate

5 !

Bugger i was done!

[Rotary-Motion]

thought it was 1

[K.H]

thought it was 1

They make lovely tables in the garden

[Rotary-Motion]

nice and flat

 

[greasemonkey]

You could probably sell one piece of slate for way more than you paid for the table. Mega bargain I'd say.

[julianf]

Not sure how thick they are yet - they vary in thickness, i think.

As for 4 vs 5 - theyre always (so far as i was aware) five slabs, as, if they were four, the join would fall in the center of the table, at the pockets, which is a more critical area of play.  Or at least that is how i undersand things.


We should get five slabs.  2 will be not have pocket holes, and the rest will.  I, ideally, want a 3.5" raise on our rayburn (to make it up to 900mm) so i will have to stack them for that.

We also have a woodwarm fireview for the 'office' which will need a hearth, and also one for the lounge (which we dont have a burner for yet)

The cheapest ive been able to find resonable sized slabs for on ebay was £40 for a 15mm thick section.


All the fires will be burning glyc logs.


If i have any left over, ill have a think about using one for a butler sink draining board - but nothing on ebay is ever 'bought' till you have it in your hands!

[K.H]

Dont stack them its a waste, you can get blue bricks to raise it 

[Tony]

Julian do you have the sink already?  I've got one here, it's listed on eBay at 1p start as I just want rid of it but you're welcome to it for nowt if you can transport it.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161003446865

[terryecosse]

Why not put the legs back on the bay,maybe some one wants a large table.

[julianf]

Sorry for my neglect of this thread...

I took the table apart this morning.  The bays, felt, cues, balls, etc are in the back of my car, but i need to go back for the slate.

The slats is 1 3/4 thick (44mm ish) and in 6' x about 29" sections.


I just called up a local place to check what the cost would be to trim the slabs (ie get rid of the pockets, bolt holes, etc) and they quoted 25+vat per slab, or 35+vat if i wanted them with a 3mm radius on the edges.


Being the cheap skate that i am, im wondering what sort of a mess i might make of it with my husqvarna k750 -



(mine is far from shiny, but you get the idea)


Or, possibly, i should just cough up the pennies?

[greasemonkey]

I wouldn't be paying that price for a few cuts. Sounds a bit extreme, but I suppose they have to make a living.

Depends how good you are with the saw. There is no reason that it can't be cut perfectly with a disk cutter, but then it could go wrong too.

I wonder could you get a good quality filler, and fill the holes in. You could even get a roofing slate, and carefully cut a piece to fit in the gaps. I'd be putting slate oil on them anyway, to improve the look, so the added pieces shouldn't look out of place, they would just add character.