What domestic hardwood would you use for a dining table and why?
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What domestic hardwood would you use for a dining table and why?
Quarter Sawn Oak. Because it is gorgeous and stable.
Black Walnut. Because it is also gorgeous and cuts and planes like hard soap.
Hard Maple to resist nicks and dings.
I’ll add Ash to the list.
Whatever wood the misses desires just because .
For "my" style? Cherry or walnut primarily. I'd consider ash or white oak (rift sawn) or English Brown Oak if it was the right look for the project.
I went White Oak
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I also like white oak and walnut.
. Iou table looks great odd numbers of boards to make up the top always look the best to me.
Good luck Ken
Ken, go with cherry. Beautiful figure. Easy to machine and easy for hand tools. And most importantly relatively light. An oak or hard maple dining table can be a bit on the heavy side for us senior citizens.
Any wood that can't dent from a ball point pen. Birds eye maple is what I used.
Cherry is what I used for ours. I like the color.
My wife likes red oak...... I love cherry.
Our old house had cherry kitchen cabinets.
I have a stock of red oak waiting for my shop to get set up.
If I were to build a dining room table, I would use White Oak, Red Oak, Maple (hard or soft), Cherry, Walnut or Ash. Hickory would be great, but would end up weighing a ton.
Oh man, I really wouldn't want to make a dining table top out of hickory. I mean, unless I felt really guilty about something and thought I needed to punish myself somehow lol.