New dining room table

[JoB]

Thought y'all might appreciate this: a friend is a master timber framer and carpenter and he built me a dining room table out of Douglas fir he got when he pulled down an old wood silo. Big enough to sit 12 and hold all the Thanksgiving turkey and trappings we had. The picture does not do it justice - this guy's amazing.

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[ides1056]

Nice Shaker style.

[classtimesailer]

That is a beauty. This was our table's first Thanksgiving. FullSizeRender.jpg
DF from some old warehouse. Honest 2x6s on some old lathe legs.

[rec head]

Very cool. I dream of being able to do that. I keep getting better but at a really slow rate.

[JoB]

I hear you. I know in theory how to build this and have the tools to do it. Actually doing it so it turns out consistently good with tight miters and mortices/tenons is a whole different matter altogether (for me). The other part is having access too 100-year-old Douglas fir.

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[mnoble485]

The company I work for recently built a firehouse that required the removal of a large oak tree. We contracted with a local craftsman to mill the lumber and build a communal table for the men. I'll post pics when I find them. We did the same thing for a local college but large double entry doors instead.

Mike

[rwsaunders]

Mike...I built a non-denominational chapel for a small college a few years back and all of the liturgical furnishings were hand crafted of local walnut, maple and wrought iron. I’ll see if I can find some pics as well. It’s pretty cool when you know where the material is from and who exactly made your furniture. I was lucky enough to see the entire process from design concept, material procurement through fabrication. The structure was a hybrid timber frame too.

[JoB]

This is great - show your cool furniture!

[rwsaunders]

Thiel College David Johnson Memorial Chapel...check link for picture of hybrid timber frame and custom fabricated liturgical furniture. Somewhere I have photos of the rough cut walnut on an 1830's hand cart being hauled around the cabinet makers shop. The stations of the cross and the processional cross ere hand painted by an iconist located somewhere in SE Pennsylvania.

David Johnson Memorial Chapel at Thiel College -

[Diablo de Acero]

IMG_5406.jpgThis not on the level of the prior tables here. I had a open weekend so I made a very basic coffee table to replace a dying Ikea one.

[JonC]

I made the base for this this summer, made the top a couple weeks ago, and was finishing it over the past week or two. It’s a full knockdown trestle. Walnut with Waterlox for finish.

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[JonC]

I am disappointed in my inability to post a picture in the appropriate orientation, but the host is not giving me the opportunity to edit the post; it claims that I do not have permission. :(

[rwsaunders]

Try Imgur.com. Saves space on Too Tall’s server too, which is closely monitored by both the NSA and the KGB.