soft maple, purple heart, and walnut dining table

Nice looking table. I like your mix of timbers and the details. Can’t help with pricing. Welcome to LJ’s looking forward to seeing more of your projects

Rick

-- If at first you don't succeed...Don't try skydiving

Racy looking table. Nice design, well done. Good luck on the sale.

-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.

Very well done.

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

I agree, very nice table. As far as pricing goes everything has nose-dived lately. I used to get $75 for a simple box, now, if I can even sell it, i get maybe $30? I tried to sell a beautiful oak parquet kitchen table and four matching chairs for $200 recently and I had no offers, Not even one. I had to lower it to $80 before I got it sold.

-- "That Government is Best that Governs The Least."-Jefferson

Gorgeous table. Just Beautiful.

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

looks great…very well done

-- Todd, Oak Ridge, TN, Hello my name is Todd and I'm a Toolholic, I bought my last tool 10 days, no 4 days, oh heck I bought a tool on the way here! †

purple heart… very nice wood … good work!!

Great looking table. It has been my experience that dinning tables don’t sell well without the chairs. They will sell, just not as fast. My advice is to do your own research and find what similar, high quality handmade tables are selling for. Then you can come up with a price you are comfortable with. I never lower my price unless I’m selling in quantity. You have to decide what works for you. If you are half the business person as you are the craftsman, you will have no problem’s.

Like the table, but you really need to put to bed the notion that if you make something beautiful, you’re going to make money. You’ve cultivated a taste for stuff, but most people haven’t. The best compliment you’ll get is “That’s really purty! Someone’ll pay money for that!” But then when you even bring up the price of the wood, they’ll tell you “I could get a table cheaper than that at Wal-Mart!”

Build furniture because: it gives you satisfaction; and you get to own furniture YOU couldn’t afford! I could never afford a bedroom set of hand-dovetailed cherry dressers, but I have one because I built it!

-- Chuck, Pullman, WA