Wedding present-walnut hall table

[gary Zimmel]

Great job on one very nice looking table John.

[Brian Kincaid]

You make everything I have ever done look like total junk.
That is amazing work. I did a double take when you said you used MDF as a veneer substrate!

Brian

[Todd Young]

Man, this is just a fabulous looking table. I'm with Brian, my work is junk when I see a piece like this. Excellent work John.

[Rob Luter]

You know, nearly every time I start to think I'm getting good at this hobby, along comes a post like this one that brings me right back down to earth.

John - That is really nice work. Your nephew is very fortunate to receive an heirloom quality table as a wedding gift. Even more so considering the source.

[John Timberlake]

Federal is not a favorite style of mine, but you did one fantastic job on this!! The detail work and overall design is spectacular. I assume you built the two tables at somewhat the same time?

Yes, they done concurrently. Save about 20% of the time on the second one. But so many of the operations were different that it certainly was not like make two table alike.

[John Timberlake]

You make everything I have ever done look like total junk.
That is amazing work. I did a double take when you said you used MDF as a veneer substrate!

Brian

Thanks for the kind comments. I used MDF because it had been recommended by some of the veneering books. I had always used baltic birch plywood in the past and will go back to it in the future. Didn't like working with MDF.