Honduran Mahogany Dining Table

As I continue the process of furnishing my house, I have arrived at the point where I have nearly completed the dining table. This is the first of 2 posts, the second of which will be the finished project.

The top is solid 1.5” thick ribbon-figured book matched mahogany. I edge glued the slabs and as you can see there are breadboard ends with wenge pegs.

The trestle legs are also from solid 4” mahogany with draw-bored double mortise and tenon joints.

All of the work was done by hand except for rough dimensioning of the stock. I had to cut the wenge on the band saw because I had worn out both of my ryoba blades. Total build time is 105hrs. working ~1.5 hrs each week night and 4-6 hrs on the weekend.

I have a very disproportionately beefy right arm from all of the hand sawing on this project ;-).

I will post the finished project in a few weeks.

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