a walnut table with leaves

 with a rich walnut stain and finish .. shoot! i forgot to dust it before the photos.

3/25  .. on its way to vegas now

click the photos to enlarge them ...

 this table started with an inquiry from a client about a 'mid-century modern' style table.

she sent us the photo above from an antique dealer's website and asked us to 

size it to suit the needs of her and her family and stain it a rich chocolaty brown.

which led to the cad drawing above and the stack of nice wide walnut from irion lumber below.

we didn't think we wanted our base frames so close to the edge of the table as

in the original photo, so we made a couple sample panels from mdf ..

looking for that 'goldilocks moment .. just right, above

too small on the left, too big on the right ..

and because, in the end, we decided on three leaves, we had to add the frame you see

above to support the moin runners and stabilize the base.  if you look closely (click

the photo to enlarge it), you can also see we added some arced 'rails' that are not visible

when the top is on but stiffen the base elements considerably when the table is opened.  

not a lot of structure to this design, but it's going to be fine.  no dancing out on the ends ...

all good in this photo, except for the apron. trevor has got it in the finish room now with all the stain

and the first coat of finish on it today .. won't be long now ...