Mission Style Dining Table

Great looking table. I love the leg design at the bottom of the legs.
Great Job. Please post the pic of the storage ideal for the leaves when you have it finished.

-- Stanley, North Georgia

Nice job.

-- Wheathills, Derbyshire, UK, www.wheathills.com

It’s a beauty. BZ

-- Dudley Young USN Ret.

I’ve have my chairs picked out, looking for a table. Definately like yours. Try this http://www.finewoodworking.com/ProjectsAndDesign/ProjectsAndDesignArticle.aspx?id=28161

thats all you can say its beautiful. nice work

-- Michael . USN ( Ret ) Batesville,AR

Excellent work! I love the design. Did you design it yourself? I really like the flair at the bottom of the legs.

Great job!

-- Dennis, http://www.maplegrovewoodworks.com/

That’s a really nice looking table. There’s a good looking Stickley Brothers Mission chair in the Woodworker’s Journal December 2008 that might go really nice with your table. The feet are shaped to match sort of. Show us the chairs too when they are finished. Looks really nice.
Kelly

-- He who dies with the most tools wins!.....Just wait, I'm going to win!..ERR my wife will at least.

I really like it. Excellent work.

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

EXCELLENT build!

Love the construction details, the wood, design, color – EVERYTHING!

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

Beautiful. A-Z

-- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!

This is my favorite style of furniture. The exposed tenons and arched stretchers add nice touches to the table’s appearance.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

very nice!

Awesome table! The link above is for the Rodel chair:

I’ve also got plans from American Furniture Design to build these chairs:

I like aspects of both. I like the spindles running down to the stretchers on AFD chair, but I really like the dovetail joints on Rodel’s chair. I may end up making a hybrid of the two.

-- You can't control the wind, but you can trim your sails

i think i like the rodel chair a little better. only thing about the mission style chairs is the front edge of the seat at the corners, i wonder how comfortable the edge would be where the posts are? i guess it wouldnt be bad for skinny folks but us bigger guys might find it uncomfaortable.

That’s a sweet one I like it a lot. keep going and have more exiting things to show your old uncle Al.lol Alistair

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Super design and workmanship Mark.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Beautiful!

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Awesome table! Great design and build.

-- John @ Myrtle Beach

Beautiful table so well done

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Beautiful dining table!

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

Very well done. Can you add a photo of the extension leaf storage? I have been debating under top versus breadboard edge leaf for a table that I am designing.

Thanks for the nice feed back. Unfortunately I can’t take full credit for the deisgn. The curved legs and arched stretcher were taken from some finely crafted Amish furnature sold locally. I did ‘engineer’ the leaf storage though. I’ve just added two additional pictures that I hope give you an idea how it works.

Thanks too for the chair suggestions. I’ve studied the FWW design several times, just not ready to commit.

-- -- Mark in Fort Wayne, IN

I am interested in your extension/leaf design. Did you use a comercially available product for the extension or design it yourselt? Love the table by the way!

Love the table! I’m currently planning a table build and this is going straight to my favorites. Lots of good design ideas and very well executed. Great job!

Roger—The table extension hardware is commercially available. Check out cabinetmakerssupply.com They appear to have them. I got lucky and had a local Amish furnature store sell me a set they got from their supplier. For ones that work for a pedistal table there is a center gear and two rack gears so the center line stays fixed and the table extends equally either side of the center line. Good luck with your build!

-- -- Mark in Fort Wayne, IN