Thorsen Table Project

Nice contrast.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

Nice variation! I like it.

-- Paul, Texas

I like the contrast between the pine and the cedar. And the drawer is a nice touch too. Good job Dale.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

I like the contrast!

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

great table!! Love the different woods together.
(I keep forgetting that this is a “competition”... it has been such a pleasure to watch everyone’s tables unfold).

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I also like the heartwood/sapwood combo on the legs. Very nice table.

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

I like it, You can build some nice furniture with Pine. I also like the contrast.
Good Luck !!

-- -** 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

Very nice, the top almost has a butcher block look to it, and the contrast is beautiful.

-- Sawhorse - Sulphur Springs, TX - www.sawhorseworkshop.com

Thank you for the positive comments everyone.

Debbie, you are completely right. It’s amazing seeing all the variations that can come from one simple table, and being told to put your spin on it, like Scotts slate top.

Good luck to everyone who enters, everyone has put together great things.

-- remember always measure once and cut twice

Debbie Not a competition, But a “Woodworking Challenge” I wanted everyone to enter not do say who won, but to show their ideas. This is the artist and the construction in each of us. Picasso would paint something different from Michelangelo. That not to say that one is right and the other is wrong. It’s just to say that they see things differently, and have the talents to show us the difference.

We are now seeing everyones different sights and talents.

Great job and congratulations on the completion.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

And congratulations to Karson for setting this all up with Martin and Popular Woodworking.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Thanks Bill.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Very nice…..I think you already won! Great job to all the participants…

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

Beautiful table Roundabout and welcome to LJs, Yes that is an unusual difference in material and you have put it together in a unique way. Good Luck. very nice. jockmike

-- (You just have to please the man in the Mirror) Mike from Michigan - wurmm47@yahoo.com

I really like the contrast. Nice job!

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

Very nice Dale.

-- BarbS, Wenatchee WA

Beautiful job, Dale. I like the cedar.

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

And I bet it smelled nice too while you were building it.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Bill, it was a great smell. I enjoyed getting the hand plane out for this piece (I could even put up with the dust created by the sander just to have that nice smell).

-- remember always measure once and cut twice

Like running a marathon, anyone who finishes is a winner… for to win such a contest is a matter of opinion. Some artists win best of show at a craft/art show one year, and don’t even place the following… whim whim whim.

Great job… no shame in useing those “little threaded metal dowels”. Many, many do, beginners and “big names” alike.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

another stunning table! – we should all get together and publish tese things ourselves – I really like the contrasting woods you used! looks great!

-- The Gnarly Wood Shoppe

The competition is absolutely fierce

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

The contrast is amazing! Nice job.

-- Charlie, Connecticut

sure would make a nice page layout in a woodworking magazine—all 30 + tables on one page surrounding the original version…

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

That sounds like a good idea to me Debbie.

-- remember always measure once and cut twice

In fact Debbie, an entire issue dedicated to it.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

SWMBO said to me yesterday, “you know that looks really good.” Translation “why don’t you make another one so we can have a matched set.” I guess I’ll start getting things together. Now that Schools out, and I’m only working part time this summer I might actually have a little time to work on some projects

-- remember always measure once and cut twice

It’s gonna be hard pressed to compete with the Morrison-Thorsen Table Company. Karson and his crew are turning them out like hotcakse… and they’re all beautiful tables.

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

Dale—sounds like you are very good at translating :)

Obi—yah… the “set” really showed a lot of talent and variations as well as a super “group entry”

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Great job roundabout. I like the contrast in woods. Lamanated top is really cool.

-- Carpe Lignum; Tornare Lignum (Seize the wood, to Turn the wood)

I agree. Very nice.

-- Jesus is Lord!

That really is one nice looking table! Well done.

-- Steve, New Zealand, http://www.steveracz.com

There a few elements in this design that I like and I’ll keep them in mind when I make something similar. Pocket screws may not be the old fashioned traditional joinery method, but my Harryism is “it’s not a flaw if no one can see it.” Mortise and tendon isn’t as hard as most people think, you just need the guts to try it.

Keep makin’ sawdust.

-- The wood is good.