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I created a round kitchen breakfast table to fit into a nook in our kitchen to replace an older table that was unstable. It was a fun project and took about a week to complete. Woods Curly Cherry top with a Cocobolo base Cherry pegs for accents and increased stability Finish Shellac wash coat...

This is my first attempt at making a dining room table. One of my wife's cousins asked me if I could make it, so I figured I'd give it a shot. The top and the skirting are made from Maple. I used a General Finishes Medium Brown dye stain with a General Finishes High Performance Satin finish...

This dining room table was made out of highly figured Mahogany, also known as "Ribbon Striped". The base has gracefully curving legs that lead up to the apron which is reminiscent of Japanese Shoji's. The table top was kept natural to highlight the figure while the legs were stained dark. The...

This farm table is 42"x90" and is made from beetle kill pine that comes from Red Feather Lakes, CO. It uses no nails or screws, just interlocking joinery with cherry pegs and glue. The tiles in the center are 3/4" slices from a 6×6, grouted using a mixture of poly and sawdust.

I am an amateur woodworker and I just finished a Tuscan trestle table for a friend's small Italian restaurant, and thought you might be interested in it. -made from old salvaged attic floor timbers, lots or worm and powder post beetle borings, very heavy old growth wood -made to be easily...

I designed and built this dining room table for clients who had a very large informal dining room and like to have large but casual dinner parties. The Claro Walnut top is a sequentially book matched set with some beautiful figure and is accented with black poplar for an ebony look. (I have a...

It's reclaimed oak from a tobacco barn in North Carolina. Purchased by a guy who took it apart and brought it down to Jacksonville, FL. He sold the lumber years later to a guy who sold it to me. haha It's the hardest oak I've ever worked with and I made the huge mistake of trying to plane it...

I've been seeing a lot of re-purposed projects out there and I liked the look of using doors for tables. After an exhaustive hunt around, I couldn't find a door to use that I liked, so I built the door and table. The door even includes a working door knob. The table will have a piece of glass...

This past Christmas I was given a stack of walnut from my wife's uncle and we decided it would make a great dining room table and chair set. Overall dimensions 44" Wide X 84" Long X 30" high The base of the table is made from poplar. Three boards were glued up for the legs bringing them to 4"...

My wife has wanted a new kitchen/dining room table for some time, and I must admit, I did too. The one we had was a 48" round table and 4 chairs. It had a wrought iron look to the legs and chairs but the chairs just wouldn't go under the table far enough to be out of the way. Our kitchen is...

This was my real first woodworking project. Overall dimensions - 40" x 64" x 31". It is built from soft maple and then stained using MinWax Red Mahogany 225. Top Coat is brush on oil based poly. The legs are joined to the rails using triple biscuits. I built this before I was confident in...

Reclaimed Live Edge Siberian Elm Slab Table - by Jewell Hardwoods. Measured 9' X 42". This was a gorgeous table, hard to let it go. www.jewellhardwoods.wordpress.com

Well this is my first table and certainly the largest thing I've ever built. I made a few amateur mistakes along the way, but a true sign of a good woodwork isn't one that doesn't make mistakes, however it's one that can hide them along the way. All the wood was chainsaw milled in CT over the...

One of my neighbors asked me to re-purpose an old dining room table that had been in her family for over 65 years. She wanted to restore and convert the Queen Anne table halves into desks and attach them to a wall. I felt that just attaching half of a table to a wall would look amiss, so I...

I adapted this from stickley no. 622. it measures about 7' long by 3 1/2' wide by 31" tall. it is made form quarter sawn white oak. i put bread board ends on it and twin through tenon stretchers because i like the look. i finished it with minwax no. 233 oil stain and sprayed on shellac and a...

This is a table my father started building for my wife and I, 4 months ago.

My wood buddy and I are back on the road to better health after several years. His daughter-in-law wanted a table for her dining room with a bench. She requested the table top look similar to the conference room table seen in the TV series Scandal. This is our interpretation with me taking the...

I designed this Mesquite table and chairs for my wife. The top is made from native Mesquite and the base from Argentine Mesquite. The dimensions are 34"W x 52"L x 31"H. The cracks are filled in with fiberglass resin mixed with graphite powder. The finish is 6 coats of Waterlox flattened by...

This dining room table seats up to ten people. The top is constructed out of one-by knotty pine material. The planks and perimeter frame are butted and glued together with biscuit strips. The skirt and legs are constructed from pine and stained ebony. The four-by legs are tapered to create a...

After a long, long, long, painstakingly long finishing process, I finally moved in my new dining room table. For those of you who haven't read my blog, I also documented the entire build, which you can browse here I followed the dimensions of Bob Lang's book pretty closely, only editing the...