"Sunglasses Required"

Every once in a while, a job comes along with a special perk. In this case, I already knew that my current customer's company was involved in creating white noise environments for offices, but finally, I wised up to the fact that they must handle a lot of speakers to create a massive network of sound waves in these offices. So, the next time he dropped in to see what was happening in my studio, I said: "So... would you have an angle on some really good  speakers for electric guitar cabinets?... like maybe 12", 100 watt?" He looked at me very inquisitively, so I pulled out a well worn speaker brochure, and pointed to the ones I was thinking of ordering, and mentioned that "...a pair would be great, but, if, while you're at it, 4 would be... "  He just said: "Those speakers are krap, I'll tell you what we can do..."
Well geewhiz, it turned out that his daughter (who already had one of my small multi-coloured tables) was always wanting a coffee table with my bright yellow finish to be a focal point of her sitting area. Perfect.
Through another related perk, I was supplied with some nice wide yellow birch. I thought it was a good opportunity to make the grain run across the width for a change, since this wasn't going to be a conventional looking table once it was finished.
The deep finish is a technique I've honed over the years. It is a multi-step process of applying dye and also mixing the dye into a laquer to make what is called a "shader". The shader gets finely sprayed on in translucent layers to achieve the desired intensity. It's not easy, but very satisfying.
The first 2 pix are the resulting table, the 3rd was taken while I was pondering the lay up of the top, and the 4th is the pay off of the nice little project.

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