There be a dining room table.
It looks like I finally finished my solid cherry dining room table! It took less than a year, which is saying something, because I still have a bookcase that has been in progress for at least 8 years. The table looks great and we just moved it into the dining room. No chairs yet. We’ll be buying those eventually. Also no leaves yet.
To the pictures!!!
The slides on this table will hold up to 5′ in leaves. I’m going to build, I think, two 30″ leaves. Right now I’m planning on building the leaves such that the wood grain runs perpendicular to the grain on the main table. I’m doing this primarily for structural reasons, but it might actually look nice to. I did notice that when the table is fully extended, the slides do bow a little bit, maybe 1/2″, without any weight (from leaves or food) on it. I think the I’ll be building a center leg to support the middle of the table when extended. Thirteen feet between legs is a mighty long span.
The finished table weighs about 200lbs. The finish is 6 coats of a simple but tough water-based polyurethane brushed on with a foam applicator.
The first big dinner served on the table is going to be Mother’s Day family brunch. Don’t know where we’re going to sit…
