My home-made egg table - pecky cypress

Cutting the hole for the egg on the second table I made....and then all the cut components...

Not a Fenix, but I have a few of them.  Love 'em. 

Nice job! I am thinking about making mine out of reclaimed wood as well. Anybody know if barn wood would work? 

You really can use any type of wood if you seal it well and keep it relatively dry and out of the sun.  Most important is using a design that doesn't capture water, and allows for the natural cross-grain expansion of the wood with outdoor variance in temp and humidity.  Seal all 6 sides of each piece of wood. 

People use cypress and cedar because they'll last the longest without being sealed.  Actually, new growth cypress often isn't much better than fir, but the old growth swamp cypress (with 40 growth rings per inch on quarter saw)...I've used stuff that I pulled out of the mud in an old back yard that's probably been there for 50 years.  Lasts and lasts.

I bought some heavy outdoor fabric and the little lady sewed up a cover in about an hour.  Scotch-garded the hell outta it.  It isn't water tight, but it lets the moisture out.  Doesn't look like it, but that's about 15 pounds of fabric.

Oh, I though I'd share a great method of lifting it into the "nest".  It's probably already discovered, but I took a couple of "forearm forklifts" (moving straps) and strapped them onto the bottom hemisphere of the edd using a ratcheting cargo strap (being very careful to put some towels between the metal ratchet and hooks as to not damage the ceramic).  Then two people can lift easily, just like you'd move anything with forearm forklifts.  Wish I could find a picture....

That is an absolutely beautiful table! Very fine craftsmanship. Any chance you could get a detail photo or two of the sliders you used to mount the top and shelf? I'd love to learn how you did that and do the same when I build mine.

I'll have to take a photo.  This is the best I have now.  Anyway, I just cut some L-brackets from some angle iron (uhh.. really aluminum), and cut a long slot in the direction of the cross-grain of the wood.  Use washers and flat head screws.  Attach so the wood can expand and contract in the cross grain direction and slide in the slot rather than split or bow.

You only have to put the sliders on one side, the other you can permanently fasten.  Or you can permanently fasten the center and put on both sides.

Alternatively, you can buy table top fasteners, which give you the same function, but attach differently - usually into a dado cut in the skirt.