Dorset Custom Furniture - A Woodworkers Photo Journal: custom round table with leaves

Saturday, April 13, 2019

a mid century modern walnut table

long story coming up here ... after 35 + years of having employees
to help me figure things out, i am on my own now ...
working by myself mostly, enjoying the rhythms of work,
rediscovering rusty processes, and learning a new
cnc drawing and toolpathing program
on we go, into our 70s ....

i (we) have done this design numerous times,
the first time somewhere around 2014

this one is a 60" round with 1 20" leaf ...
lookin good in its new home

started with some matched irion lumber walnut

glued it up and cut the half rounds and the leaf ends on the cnc

drilled the holes and inserted the pins with our long time

trusty custom hole and pin and drilling jig

cut the base parts on the cnc

wrestled with many clamps to glue them up

cut the square edge apron parts

joined them together with dominos and pocket screws

routed a half round pocket in a piece of mdf and used the 45 degree
bit to create the angles on the apron pieces below

all together now ...

a little finishing with some dull rubbed poly ..
off to connecticutt ...

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

a walnut pedestal table

we've got a couple of walnut pedestal tables in the works in the shop right now .. well, actuallhy, this one is finished and i hope to deliver it tomorrow or friday. it's going to a house right down the street from us, right here in town. it's 56" in diameter closed and has three 45" leaves for a total of 56 x 101.

the base design i attribute to my client who had a pretty clear vision that she was able to convey to us as we worked through the drawings and two scale models. i've got some pictures of them somewhere ..

the cad drawing was pretty straightforward once we got the concept worked out ..

as usual, we procured some of irion lumber's finest. a log of matched 15-16" boards and a fine piece of 4" walnut from a different log, but matched very well .. thanks myron.