SunkenWood

29/03/2026

Sign of the times

16/09/2025

BOOKMATCHED SPALTED BEECH TABLE-TOP

is quite pleased with the bookmatching (if not the video steadiness) of this spalted beech (from ) coffee table top. Minimal use of epoxy to fill a couple of voids cracks similar to the Kintsugi method.

16/09/2025

COMPARING BOWLS

The most recent bowls are -

(1) the “Cyberbowl” angular, heavy, chunky, just like a Cybertruck, made of Scottish oak and weighing in at 1.28 kg
(2) the “Liverbowl” rounded with hints of blue, with bur like liver histology, made of Scottish elm burr but weighing in at 4.35 kg

guesses that people are likely to only like one (or neither) but not both…are we wrong?

05/09/2025

05/09/2025

This book matched spalted beech (from ) coffee table to / wall art just needs the hard wax oil to cure fully before the final stage of Blackforest Wood Co ceramics protective coating.

02/09/2025

Quilted oak bowl

We started this chunky bowl using left-over oak from back in May 2025. We used the Kintsugi method (Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum) using UVpoxy with “Antique Gold” mica powder to fill in cracks, knots and cavities. Water thin CA glue from filled the smallest cracks. The bowl has 45° chamfers all round and was sanded from 40 through to 240 grit and finished with 4 coats of polyx gloss. Final dimensions: 382 x 246 x 49 mm, bowl diameter = 194 mm, weight 1.2 kg.

Its purely tongue in cheek that we call it the “cyberbowl” because its big, chunky, angular and would hurt a lot if it hit you. Maybe it’s a must for a cybertruck owner? More seriously, we love the crazy quilted-looking end-grain patterns.

02/09/2025

Quilted oak bowl

We started this chunky bowl using left-over oak from back in May 2025. We used the Kintsugi method (Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum) using UVpoxy with “Antique Gold” mica powder to fill in cracks, knots and cavities. Water thin CA glue from filled the smallest cracks. The bowl has 45° chamfers all round and was sanded from 40 through to 240 grit and finished with 4 coats of polyx gloss. Final dimensions: 382 x 246 x 49 mm, bowl diameter = 194 mm, weight 1.2 kg.

Its purely tongue in cheek that we call it the “cyberbowl” because its big, chunky, angular and would hurt a lot if it hit you. Maybe it’s a must for a cybertruck owner? More seriously, we love the crazy quilted-looking end-grain patterns.

22/08/2025

Elm stool

PART 4: The stool parts were glued, screwed, clamped and 16 mm elm plugs glued into the screw holes. The outside surfaces were then sanded to 240 grit then given 3 coats of polyx gloss. The feet were screwed into their threads and1 adjusted very slightly for the location in our porch. can now change shoes and boot up more comfortably in the porch.

22/08/2025

Elm stool

PART 3: After fine-tuning the pieces, the leg piece was cut into 2. We made a Perspex template and used a 50 mm long flush trim cutter to cut the curve in the front and back of the seat top. A beltsander to form the rest of the curve between these 2 cuts. Further sanding as done using a Festool ETS orbital sander. A 3 mm round over was cut with a suitable router cutter then all surfaces were sanded from 80 to 180 grit. Sides that were to be exposed, the bottom of the seat, the insides of the legs and thew top and bottom of the shelf/support were then sanded to 240 grit. Four 20 mm holes for feet and then M8 threaded inserts holding the feet were cut into the bottoms of the legs, 2 per leg. Then 5 mm through holes were drilled for screws, inset 20 mm into the wood with 16 mm diameter holes for elm plugs: 2 in each side, 4 in the seat – 2 above where each leg is to be glued and screwed. Dowells to locate the pieces and restrict movement during screwing were prepared. Glue joint surfaces were taped and the inside surfaces were given 3 coats of polyx gloss.

04/08/2025

Elm stool part 2

We bought a couple of modest, but beautiful, elm slab from recently. We wanted a small stool for our porch as somewhere to sit when putting on/taking off shoes and boots. We came up with a simple design having elements of Japanese and arts & crafts influence. Our house is painted white inside and we thought that the elm grain against white epoxy would work well. This also enabled us to get more out of the elm. So much more that when we measured up, we realised we only needed the smaller of the two 40 mm thick elm slabs.

PART 2: We poured coloured with white pigment in two pours, first day 10 mm and the second to just cover the wood surface, totalling 3.7L. After 7 days curing we demoulded, router sled flattened, trimmed and sanded to 120 grit. The legs are still in a single piece. We think the white epoxy works very well with this elm.

23/07/2025

Elm stool

We bought a couple of modest, but beautiful, elm slab from recently. We wanted a small stool for our porch as somewhere to sit when putting on/taking off shoes and boots. We came up with a simple deign having elements of Japanese and arts & crafts influence. Our house is painted white inside and we thought that the elm grain against white epoxy would work well. This also enabled us to get more out of the elm. So much more that when we measured up, we realised we only needed the smaller of the two 40 mm thick elm slabs.

Here we show the marked-up slab and the cut pieces arranged in the best configuration to be contained in a single mould for the epoxy pour.

10/07/2025

Mick’s Elm Burr – Liver bowl

We call it the liver bowl because the beautiful burr detail resembles the gorgeous histology of the healthy human liver.

Final dimensions: 408 outside diameter x 125 diameter, 30 mm deep “bowl depression” x 48 mm

Will soon be for sale on Etsy shop.