challenge01-Cherry and Oak Thorsen Table.

Excellent job Mark – and this is only your second table. Mike

Thanks!

This was my first:

-- Jesus is Lord!

Great Table

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Excellent job Mark. Now make your 3rd. It only gets better!

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Mark: Great table. and Congratulations on finishing.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

That makes at least two of us who have switched the grain direction from the bottom shelf to the table top. Something about this design encourages the change. In an odd way it highlights the cloud lift and the bread board ends. Great job!

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Beautiful Mark, glad you goter dun. Very original and nice color and if I needed a g and g table I’d be the first in line to buy yours and Dicks, that goes without saying. (dont want to hurt his feelings). I just hope I can get mine all sanded out I got the top fininshed last night. My daughter in law loved her clock. She told me to make and sell em for a hundred dollars apiece. Anybody out there going to give me a hundred dollars for a cloclk. I did’nt think so. It was pretty though, guess who else wants one? I’ll give you a hint, we’ve been married 35 years. Oh come on honey it did’nt take you that long. Yea, right. Well good job anyway Mark, you got time to make a clock? mike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

Excellent table Mark! You did a wonderful job on all aspects of this project. Nice use of the woods grain.

-- " All Things At First Appear Difficult"

love the shelf !!! NICE

great job.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Thanks for the kind words, Mike, CarverRog, MsDebbieP, Karson, Wayne, PanamaJack and Dennis it means more to me than you could ever know.

Mike: If you show me how and supply some of that beautiful burl, I’d be proud to make clocks with you, buddy.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Very nice Mark. Keep it up.

-- Phil Brown, Ontario

Beautiful work Os. Terrific job and it turned out wonderfully!

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

Congratulations on the completion of a beautiful table Os/Mark.
I guess I better get my sticks together, because you’re leaving me in the dust.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Mark, this is a terrific table!

I particularly like how you’ve taken an established design and modified it to reflect your own individual signature without detracting from the original intent.

Your entry to the contest is a worthy addition – good luck!

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

Wonderful table, Mark. I’m a big fan of contrasting woods. I like your buttons in particular.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Really, really nice. I also like the contrast of the buttons.

-- Fred Childs, Pasadena, CA - - - Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

As already said you have done a great job nice wood choice and finish.Keep up the good work.

-- F.Little

Nice work! It must feel good to have completed the table.

-- John

Neat. I like how you attached the breadboards . . . or whatever you call those boards on the ends of the table top.

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

I am speechless and overwhelmed by all the kind words. I never thought I could build this table when I started and I have never tried designing anything. Most of my woodworking to this point was made from a plan, except my turnings. It is a relief to have completed it. Now I can relax and watch all of the expert designers and woodworkers show their stuff. I know there are some real masterpieces lurking in the shops of some LumberJocks. I couldn’t have done it without your support and advice. Thanks!

-- Jesus is Lord!

That’s a great table. You did something I did on a project and that’s to use 2 distinctly different woods. I think that can make a very interesting piece. Congratulations! I still want to make one of these tables. I got set back when the mortising setup I ordered didn’t arrive in time, but I like the table so much that I’m going to get at it very soon. Maybe I’ll use a different type of wood for each individual table piece….maybe not.-SST

-- Accuracy is not in your power tool, it's in you

SST, that sounds great, I’d love to see you design and wood combination. Make the sawdust fly!

Thank you!

-- Jesus is Lord!

Mark, that looks great! I can’t believe that is only your second table! Nice design, great craftsmanship!

Schroeder

-- The Gnarly Wood Shoppe

Another great project resurfaces in “pulse” That’s just great!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

I’m glad that you like it. It sits proudly in my living room, now. If it weren’t for the challenge, I probably wouldn’t have made it and that would have been sad. Thanks, Karson, Martin, Mark and Micheal.

-- Jesus is Lord!