S1E2. The Table: An oddcast about the process of bricolage that resulted in the table we now work on in our ‘studio’ to produce each episode in The Bricoleur’s Notebook. Your co-hosts, Jack Eastwood and Don McKay, constructed this table from an array of salvaged and saved materials. The photos and text in the gallery below provide some visuals of Don’s Table and a second table that inspired it.

Spalted Beech and Mountain Ash table top. The Moho Discontinuity stone from Gros Morne inlaid in left plank along with the Fox Trap pyrophylite (at very far end) with the serpentinized peridotite embedded in the right plank. All stone used to fill empty branch holes or decayed grain.

Side view: "The Table", and Don, a co-conspirator in the making of these odd-casts, in his kitchen turned recording studio.

End view: iron spikes, welded or clamped, fix the legs to the top and bottom as well as the trestle piece. Rusted hinges welded to the spikes hold the upper stays to the legs; rusted flat iron was welded to the spikes and bolted to the trestle stay to steady the table.

Handprinted "Contents of Table" with its leather holding pouch cut and made from one of Jack's father's old gloves.

Tara’s Table (under construction) - From Left: Melting Bear, one dog, an Accordion Book, “talc’ stone Cacti and landscape from her Texan homeland, and Walking Bird - all inspired by her life.

Melting Bear - detail. Inlays of etched copper (arms), turquoise stone (eyes), and various hardwoods(head and melting body).

A ghostly dog runs through my dreams

‘Found art’ in a piece of spalted maple.

Scroll down to a second view of some of the above pictures.