by Mike G » 19 Dec 2019, 14:41
The legs are from a slab of 3" English oak which I set aside maybe 10 or 15 years ago. It looks a little like it may have had a mild fungal attack, making it sort-of spalted, sort-of brown oak*. I can't remember what I used the rest of the board for, otherwise I'd have a clearer idea of whether it was like this when I bought it, or if it's something that has happened whilst stored since.
It's worth saying that there is quite a lot of oak in the room, hence the piece should be seen in the context of beams, posts, studs, and a soon-to-be-made door and TV cabinet, tying the table into the room rather than having it sit there like something parachuted in from a distant planet.
*I doubt whether it is actually brown oak, which as far as I remember was attacked by a bracket fungi whilst alive.