My hunch is they don't sell at all. $2k is a big price for a coffee table. When you can pick up an 1.5" thick solid walnut table for a quarter of the price you'd need to be really into epoxy to spring for a river table.The local Facebook marketplace used to be full of those…then, all of a sudden…they were gone. I don’t know if the people making them got tired of it…or they just didn’t sell well enough.
Hard wax holds up well. Not a lot of people use it because it's expensive.any wooden furniture that lasts has any number of plastic sealers/finishes/coatings. if it has even a hint of a glossy sheen/specular highlight it is a coating. even old school linseed oil is a natural polymerized plastic. if it was just waxed, you would be re-applying the wax every couple of months or the protection would wear off.
I've never used mesquite. I don't even know what it looks like.The mesquite furniture places around here sell a lot of them. It is difficult to get wide mesquite boards that don’t have flaws so the manufacturers use resin to fill the gaps. Wide boards are very expensive and manufacturers don’t want to cut them down if they can avoid it. We have a mesquite bench with black resin filling a couple gaps. It’s usually used on table tops where the flaws create more problems. The black resin isn’t too noticeable. The turquoise resin is not to my taste.
Mesquite:I've never used mesquite. I don't even know what it looks like.
I picked up a bunch of rough sawn white oak 2x8 a year or so back, the fellow was selling it as dunnage, buck a foot. After that a came across two walnut slabs 8' x 16" useable for fifty bucks each. I cut the heart wood out of them for my table and bench. Beautiful stuff. The fellow tossed in a 10' cherry rough sawn 2x10 because it was badly bowed. I cut all the good lumber out of it and ended up tossing about a third of it.
My problem now is that I'm hooked on heart walnut, and usually goes for around $10 a board foot for rough sawn lumber.
Nice looking material.
A few hundred bucks worth of tools and you could make it yourself. Of course that will start you down a path of buying gear that will never end. If you have the resources you'll find yourself buying boutique tools at truly absurd prices.That's exactly the style woodwork I like. I might go for less gloss, but I'd love to have that in my house.
I've seen a couple that were cool looking, but not for the absurd price being asked. When you're looking at two or three thousand dollars for a coffee table it needs to be pretty spectacular.Those types of tables have existed a very long time. Saw many in the 70s/80s. More interesting than most coffee tables, each being unique.
My wife literally dragged me out of an antique shop when I was in negotiation to buy a 9ft tall bronze raptor statue so I have no doubt someone buys them!Do people really buy these things?
That price doesn't seem unreasonable.My wife literally dragged me out of an antique shop when I was in negotiation to buy a 9ft tall bronze raptor statue so I have no doubt someone buys them!
For closure I had beaten him down to £3k and a bit and, yes, I was quite drunk at the time!
Edit. Probably closer to 7 foot tbh. It was a cool statue though!
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I kinda like that SCOTSMAN plaque.My wife literally dragged me out of an antique shop when I was in negotiation to buy a 9ft tall bronze raptor statue so I have no doubt someone buys them!
For closure I had beaten him down to £3k and a bit and, yes, I was quite drunk at the time!
Edit. Probably closer to 7 foot tbh. It was a cool statue though!
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I mean you can argue with the wife if you want!That price doesn't seem unreasonable.
I agree. For a 7 foot bronze dinosaur statue it's not that far out for a asking price. Bronze statues are super expensive then you got the drunk Welsh guy factor and yeah who knows what might happen. @WelshBloke you should have bought that when you had the chance! Your neighbors would be talking about you for years!That price doesn't seem unreasonable.
They’d get stolen and melted down for scrap.That's awesome, I want two of those for the entrance of my off grid property.