The Table: getting the wood

After a short research around Leeds in order to buy the proper wood, we ended up in ‘John Boddy Timber Ltd’, a great woodworkers superstore with quite a variety of different wood types.

I am saying we and here I should introduce a great friend that is involved (in great means) in this project, Asterios Christaras. Asterios is a civil engineer, living in Leeds and I know him for a few years now. One of his greatest interests is woodwork, making amazing little things with his magic hands. He managed to set up a personal studio in his attic, an amazing little place with hardly any health and safety regulations applied, great heat levels and a lot of dust and wood trims around. Just the perfect place for us, hidden from daylight or normality, our great exit to the magical world of woodworking..

So here we are, surrounded from lots of different types of wood in all sorts of colours (and price ranges!), ready to choose the right wood before we start cutting.

We needed something really light, with no other colour or extra finish, something that can be adaptable and neutral in order to apply –later on- all the information that is going to be printed on it.

We ended up with a sort of wood I had never came along before called ‘Spalted Beech’, a nice ‘white’ wood. We bought it, we tried fitting it in the car and we drove home. Later on we would start cutting it and drawing our first lines..