Walnut Farm Table

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This is a 3 board table made for a customer that has book matched outer boards. You can see the process of lining the boards up so the grain and figuring will be symmetrical.

Glueing up process...

Finished Product

Old Barn Reclaimed Heart Pine Table

 This project started with old barn wood from Montgomery, AL

 Next we laid them out in the order that was most pleasing to the customer...

 Once the glue had dried, we hand sanded the top to keep the old mill marks but also keeping it smooth to the touch. You can usually tell if wood is old or new by the "mill marks". Woodmills from the past used circular saws to rip lumber, which in turn left circular marks. If you look below you can see the saw marks have an arch in them. Modern mills use large bandsaws which leave a vertical mark.

Finished table in their home. 

Another Walnut Farm Table

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New Farm Table

A four-plank black walnut table. If you look closely (the pictures can be enlarged by clicking them) the outside boards are bookmatched and the inner two boards are bookmatched! All the lumber came from the SAME TREE!

         The legs and skirt are made from Red Oak, very strong have a great grain pattern when shellaced, painted and distressed.

Hell, we even made a bench from the last plank of the tree!

The customer saw the set of benches I had put on this blog and said I want the same ones! 8) 

Walnut Table Benches

Most of my projects have stemmed from customers saying they are looking for something similar to what they saw in Restoration Hardware or Crate and Barrel type magazines. This pair of benches falls into that category. The customer was looking for something similar to the "Toscana Bench" from Pottery Barn. The bench looks like this...

After the customers decided on size and color we started making them a pair of these...

This is after the first coat of Danish Oil

Final coat...