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 ...

one of our most popular designs

we finished and delivered another version of one of our popular

mid century modern expanding round tables .. we've made at least 6 or 8

or even more of this design in various sizes and color shades of walnut.

 

this one was a 60" round with three 20 inch leaves

making for a 5' x 10' table when fully extended ..

as usual, we started with a log of walnut from irion lumber in PA,

though this is not a picture of it ... it looked  kind of like this thougg the

boards were all the same length and there were several bookmatches to chose from

my man trevor had at it, vuutting the top, the beveled aprons, and
the base pieces on the cnc ..

generic cad drawing for this design ... just add leaves

steel table runners from moin hardware

same finish as this table