Claro Walnut Coffee Table

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One of my coffee tables is for sale in "The Nature Gallery" on Foster street in Dothan. It is made of Black Walnut, which is my favorite wood to work. The slab pictured is made of Claro Walnut, usually reserved for high-end gun stocks and musical instuments. It has the prettiest "quilted grain" I have seen on anything that has come through my workshop.

This shows a "butterfly" used to keep the slab from splitting.

Even though wood has long been cut and dried at the time of construction, it still can expand and contract due to changes in humidity. When it is extremely humid like it is now your solid-wood furniture will swell, sometimes causing drawers to feel tighter or seams in joined-wood to close slightly. In the colder months, just the opposite.

This is a picture of it on a wrought-iron base.

The top is for sale with or without the base, depending on personal taste...

Live-Edge Cypress Table

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Some of you know I have been making farm tables, mantles and coffee tables for the last couple years. In that time I have found a type of table that I just love making. They are called Live-edge or Nakashima style tables. George Katsutoshi Nakashima (May 24, 1905 – June 15, 1990) was a Japanese-American woodworker, architect, and furniture maker who was one of the leading innovators of 20th century furniture design and a father of the American craft movement. George was, like many Japanese-Americans, placed into a interment camp in the 40's. During his time there, he was mentored by an older woodworker who showed him how to use wood in a more natural, organic form. The live-edge table was born. Here are some examples of Nakashima's work.

Here is my last one made for some ATL friends of mine...

It is made of sinker Cypress from the Chipola River. It was made of 2 pieces of cypress slabs, one pictured here.

When joined together, stained and finished, the top looks like this...