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Old Saw Blade Side Table

Junk is stuff you have no use for.

Here is a blade that was destined for land fill, so was the timber.
Junk can be reclassified!
The teeth have been ground smooth and the weight of the blade gives the table a nice stability.
In making this there was a nice exploration of cutting compound angles to fabricate the hexagonal pyramid.
 
 

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