New dining room table for my wife

Good looking table. I like it !

-- ..... art for lifes sake ... danwalters@lumberjocks.com

Nice. Can you write about the finish?

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Great looking table and quite an accomplishment for your first big project. Well done.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Beautiful table. I like your changes to the original design!

-- Nils Davis, Menlo Park, CA

Really nice job, looks really nice and I bet your wife is really happy.

-- Kaleo , http://www.kaleosworkshop.com

After some debating at Woodcraft they finally convinced me to use a gel stain & water based polyacrylic by General Finishes. After using the gel stain I don’t think that I will go back to any of the oil based stains. This stuff goes on great and you have even color throughout the whole project. As for my wife that was the ultimate test and I think that when I do take this pro that she will be my first employee. Man I was I nervous on this project, see my wife is a former non-destructive tester for car parts that are under a lot of stress as we drive. So over the years her eyes for quality control look at anything different than my eyes. So when I make some furniture for other people it will have to pass her test which I hope will allow us to still get along haha. Just kidding. I really appreciate your comments I was debating about putting this out there and now I am glad that I let everyone see this piece of furniture.

-- Something that goes unnoticed will never be remembered.

What was the debate? The table is gorgeous. And have a wife skilled in QA can do nothing but good for growing your skills even further.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

it’s beautiful indeed.
Well done

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

Very nice!

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

Very nice table. Good work! I love the simple mission style furniture.

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

Very nice. Good for you. Having a spouse that is a ‘good’ critique can be a very nice thing, both for your projects and your relationship.

I would like to hear more of your veneering experience.
Steve

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Beautiful table. I, too, really like Mission furniture. Simple and functional with a distictive look. I am curious about the legs? Are they solid or laminated or veneered like the top? Excellent veneering job, by the way.

-- Farles from Niagara - Woodworking, like life, is a journey...enjoy the ride!

Congratulations! This really came out super. I love the ease of those water-based finishes too.

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

Looks great! – Nice Job!

-- The Gnarly Wood Shoppe

great table im picturing a 20 lb. turkey in the middle !

Great table. Something similar to what I want to attempt soon. Love the color and finish!

-- North Texas

Hey it is great to hear from all of you. As far as the legs go they are 4 pcs of 4/4 oak face glued and then milled to 3 1/2” by 3 1/2”. The whole base is solid wood because I wanted that to be sturdy and solid. It is a very good feeling that after a project like that, that my great great grand kids could be doing their homework on this very table. The only reason that I veneered the top is due to my teacher is really against solid wood tops. he says that after time that the top would really be out of wack and won’t look very good. so I went with this 4’ by 8’ sheet of veneer that to me goes good with the grain of the legs. The process that I used was to cut the veneer about an inch proud all around the table. Then I applied basically a rubber cement to the table and veneer, I am sure that there was a name for this stuff, but we get our glues from some guy in Chicago. So three of us start to put the veneer on the table top, and one of the students was more focused on what i was doing and not keeping their side straight. When we were finishing the application Dale (our instructor) was like whoa dude I hope we make it. The far corner when I was finished only hung over about 1/8” when I had an inch or better around the rest of the table.

-- Something that goes unnoticed will never be remembered.

I think that you used contact cement. The way to apply the veneer on something like this is to put carpenter paper on the substrate. Lay the veneer on top of the paper. Start pulling the paper out and running a roller or plastic squeegee over the surface to start adhering the veneer. Do a section at a time, pull the paper out a little, press the surface. You can do a top like that by yourself and you have full control of the material.

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

OH – Nice work, but where are the other 2 pics? Great work deserves more pics!

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

Great table! very, very nice work. Are you going to make the chairs next?
God bless

-- Gene, a Christian in Virginia

Thats a nice dining table.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker