First Walnut Table - A Little Bragging & Thanks!

[Hans Braul]

Really impressive project. You say it was your first furniture project, but your shop indicates some really serious intent! How much experience in woodworking do you have? Sounds like a lot. Ridgebacks are wonderful dogs!

[alex grams]

REally nice table Mauricio. I found it interesting you finished the table before putting on the ends. Any reason for that?

And (as you can guess from the signature) WHOOP!

[Mauricio Zamora]

Ridgebacks rock - we love our two dogs!

Regarding finishing: hate to say it but I was impatient. I was trying to figure out what I was going to do with the breadboard ends and I decided to move forward with finishing....

Regarding ATM - Class of 93 and freaking stoked we have a real football team again! My son and I took a trip to the Nebraska game - it was awesome!

Regarding the workshop - I am embarrassed to say I don't deserve the shop I have. Woodworking is a hobby that I hope will evolve to something more once I have the ability to retire...

Thanks again for all the interest... This has been quite a great experience. Feel a lot of gratification for some reason...

[Gene Waara]

Outstanding work! I have been trying to decide what to do with a few pieces of walnut that I stumbled across this summer and may "borrow" a bit of your design for two end tables I plan to make.

[Jon Agnew]

i want that table.

[Bob Riefer]

Beautiful work! I can only hope that my first efforts turn out so well!!!

(Btw... you mentioned Bradford woodworking... That's 5 minutes from my house, and I went to his open house last year. Which makes me curious... are you my neighbor? I'm in Collegeville PA.)

[Jason Strauss]

You got skills, man! This is your first furniture project!?!? Liar, liar, pants on fire! You built my dream dinning table on your first try; you have every right to feel gratified.

Now, how about some chairs?!

[Eric A Martin]

Nice work on the table, if I could only get my wife to give up the garage, the I too could have a shop like yours...

[Bill Edwards(2)]

Really beautiful! I like the size (heft).

I have to admit if someone says trestle style table, I never think of
something in a dark wood/finish, but this is great.

I did some searching and found a lot of dark trestle style tables.

I guess I need to get out from under the mushroom more often.

[Mauricio Zamora]

Thanks for the continued feedback! It's been quite an experience and it's got me itching to finish that next project!

As for chairs - I plan to create two end chairs but for some reason, chairs seem pretty complicated so I am going to build a few other things first!

I live in Charlotte NC. There was a store nearby that was selling Bradford furniture and my wife flipped out when I knew about his work due to a fine woodworking article a while back. We fell in love with the bench and picked one up. That guy has some skills - really nice stuff!

[Ben Arnott]

This is a fine piece of furniture Mo. I'm really impressed. Great choice of material. Excellent craftsmanship. You should be very proud. I would ben.

[Michael Dromey]

Mo, your table is fantastic. Walnut is my favorite wood to work with. I am from Missouri. Just curious where in Missouri did you get your wood? Were they using the river to transport the logs to the mill? A few yours back I had a logger claim that Missouri was the nations top producer of walnut.