A Plant Stand with a Very Expensive Top

[Dave Richards]

This is a plant stand based on the one in the current issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine. I did this model for a woodowrker who wanted to see what it would look like with a tile for the toop instead of the wood veneered top in the original design. This tile would cost several times what all of the wood for the project would be.

 

[glenn bradley]

Yes, art tiles while incredibly cool are priced accordingly. This has stopped me from using them several times.

 

[Dave Richards]

Yeah. That kind of price for those tiles would slow me down, too. Some years ago I designed a piece for a client that used some smaller tiles. This is one of the prelim models. The tiles were much more affordable then.

 

[Brent Dowell]

Beautiful work!

 

[Dave Richards]

Beautiful work!

Thank you sir.

 

[Robert Horky]

They may be expensive but they sure make the piece. A pleasure to the eye.

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

That rendering looks great, Dave. Did you use a photo of the tile, or recreate it in Sketchup?

 

[Dave Richards]

Thanks Vaughn. The rendering was done in SketchUp 2026. I used an image of the tile as a texture.

 

[Darren Wright]

I wonder how much it would be to have a UV printed tile done. They can be pretty convincing visually, but probably a bit cheaper.

 

[Dave Richards]

I wonder how much it would be to have a UV printed tile done. They can be pretty convincing visually, but probably a bit cheaper.

That would be cool. You need to get a machine to do that.

 

[Don Baer]

I wonder how much it would be to have a UV printed tile done.

I have played around with doing some color laser etching with powder coating colors with my laser engraver. That would certainly work on tiles. I need to get back into trying that when I get time.