Mission Table with Tile inset

Looks great, the wood is really nice, and the dovetails look sweet.

A really nice job. I especially like that you came up with your own design rather than making it from someones else plans. And it has a story feature to it also. Keep the projects coming.
Al

-- Al Holstein "I wood do it"

can i possibly get the dimensions on this? love it!

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Beautiful piece! Great job on the write-up for the project. Good to frame an older piece of some family heritage in furniture with cool character too!!

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jcinwilkes,

I’ll look up the dimensions later today and let you know. I thing the top is 18 across and 22 deep

Ev

-- Ev in Framingham, MA

That looks really great, I like the contrasting color pegs in the legs

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Beautiful work. All the effort you put into finishing it really shows.

-- Brian in Arlington, TX - Laziness is the foundation of efficiency.

Wow, this is great! Nice.

I’m new at this, so can someone explain what fuming does and why it is necessary?

-- Cliff. Proverbs 16:9

With Oak (especially White Oak), the wood naturally contains tanins. In short, what happens when you expose the raw wood to ammonia, it naturally darkens the wood through a chemical reaction. It’s impressive in that it gets pretty deep into the wood too. It is legend that it was discovered a long time ago by noticing in barns where horse stables existed that the white oak beams turned a really dark color, from the ammonia that formed from the horse urine.

It’s pretty hard to mess it up too. Just build a tent (grab some roll plastic from the big box store) and in my experience, i used household $1 a gallon ammonia in four small bowls, placed them on the ground around the table, then sealed it up. 36 hours later, voila (really shows when oil is applied). I wish I took pictures of the tent.

I don’t like staining as I like the wood to look how it’s naturally supposed to look. I will be doing it again on a library table i’m going to build and will likely blog about it then.

Thanks everyone for the comments! it’s very inspiring

-- Ev in Framingham, MA

Very handsome work!

-- Dan ~ Texarkana, Tx.

Fantastic looking table and nice attention to detail. The dovetails look great. Job well done.

-- Ben from IL

This is the stuff that really makes me love my hobby! your attention to detail is meritorious!

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Very nice work. I kind of curious about a couple of things though. Is there any other finish on the wood besides the fuming ? Wax ?
Also what kind of wood did you use to pin the tenons ?
It’s a stunning table.

Hi Taoist
See last paragraph in description above. Definitely more than just wax
Pins and handles are ash

Thanks again everyone for the comments

-- Ev in Framingham, MA

Nice.
How did you cut your dovetails – by hand or with a jig?
What brand / model of Jig?
Thanks

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