As a wedding gift I am building my niece a 5 foot round dining table. I have never made a large round dining room table, and found some nice plans by Jon Peters on Youtube.

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I am building mine in Pennsylvania cherry

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Lumber stacked and acclimating

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Base consists of 8/4 cherry in a bridle joint mortised and tenoned to legs

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Mortised with my largest mortise chisel, a Narex 1/2 inch. I really need something longer and stronger to lever out the chips, but is the Ray Iles
really worth over $100?.

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