Shades of Jarrah
This hall table was made for Chatoyance, Studio Woodworkers Australia’s exhibition that was themed on the way that the grain patterns in wood can change from different viewpoints. My choice of wood for this was jarrah.
The wood
Two kinds of West Australian jarrah are used in this piece. The legs, top and lower rails are made from commercially available wood that in this case was dark and heavy with lighter coloured streaks.
The fiddleback rails and inlay pieces came from a paddock tree grown on private property. I purchased two large flitches of this and resawed them on the bandsaw, quartersawing to my own specifications.
Jarrah is structurally very strong and also has a powerful presence, so my design was for a lighter construction and limited the use of the fiddleback sections. Plainer and darker jarrah was
