Large Custom-Made Walnut Display Table

[Don Blackmond]

Overall dimensions: 48"x30"x3.75" display table.
Insert measures 45"x27.5".
It comes with a custom-made shipping/storage crate measuring 51"x33"x6".
Built by Tom Scott many years ago for a large formal upright bald cypress that won Best of Show at the Chicago Botanical Gardens Midwest Bonsai Show.
Original cost was close to $1,000.00.
I will sell it for the best reasonable offer.
It has some minor surface scratches/blemishes that can be fixed.
See the photos for details/construction.

 

[Don Blackmond]

Here is the crate:

 

[Don Blackmond]

Excuse the messy background....

 

[Don Blackmond]

A bit more....

 

[Don Blackmond]

That should be a good representation of what it is.
Make an offer.
Shipping is extra. About 70 lbs crated.

 

[LanceMac10]

Off topic.....love my Bowflex dumbells!!!!!!!!!!!!
I spy them in the background.
Sweet stand....If only I had something proper to put on it!!

 

[Vin]

If you sell it with the BC I'll give you what you paid for it

That's a beautiful table indeed!

 

[barrosinc]

I can fit my whole collection on that table

 

[Don Blackmond]

If you sell it with the BC I'll give you what you paid for it

That's a beautiful table indeed!

I sold the cypress already, so no can do. Sorry.
I should have mentioned, that's not the cypress the stand was built for. The other was a true formal upright and much nicer.

 

[Vin]

I sold the cypress already, so no can do. Sorry.
I should have mentioned, that's not the cypress the stand was built for. The other was a true formal upright and much nicer.

Hey, it was worth a shot. Is that the cypress in a photo with a shed door behind it or something like that? I seem to remember seeing a photo of it somewhere a couple years back.

 

[Don Blackmond]

This one

 

[Vin]

Yep, that's the one I was thinking of but it's obviously not the same tree. Thanks for showing it again.

 

[Smoke]

Original cost was close to $1,000.00.

With prices like that I could retire and become a stand builder.

 

[Don Blackmond]

With prices like that I could retire and become a stand builder.

You should sell stands. I've seen your work.
But then, not long into doing it, you'd be wondering why you thought it would be worth doing because it became a job and you did not enjoy doing it any more.

 

[JudyB]

That is such an amazing tree, it drops my jaw every time I see it.

 

[Smoke]

You should sell stands. I've seen your work.
But then, not long into doing it, you'd be wondering why you thought it would be worth doing because it became a job and you did not enjoy doing it any more.

Hey, thats exactly why I don't do it. I love building them and would probably build more a year if I lived in a better climate. I have a couple months a year I can even stand to go into the garage all day.

 

[Adair M]

Hey, thats exactly why I don't do it. I love building them and would probably build more a year if I lived in a better climate. I have a couple months a year I can even stand to go into the garage all day.

Al, I have to say those shohin stands you made were beautiful!!

 

[Jrs1672]

The trees in this thread look like this picture i took in my friends backyard yesterday

 

[Giga]

Lots of awesome in this thread! Love the stand and all the BC. I thought my BC was huge

 

[JudyB]

Lots of awesome in this thread! Love the stand and all the BC. I thought my BC was huge

True story, I went up to Don's to pick up my first "real" bonsai, and he had a kiddie pool in front of his greenhouse, that had a Giant BC filling that pool. I will never forget the sight of that.