what kind of custom dining tables do you make

someone, i forget who, asked me over the holidays, so what type of furniture do you make most often?  my answer was dining tables.  a lot of our projects take longer and require a lot more concentration, organization and problem solving, but im fairly confidant if you asked my guys what their favorite type of project was, youd get the same answer.  dining tables.  one of the reasons may be is the flow of them.  you start. not that long later, you finish.  they leave. you know people will have good times around them ...next project ...

  how many different tables have we made over the last 34 years?  more than a hundred for sure.  i put this slide show together as much for my own convenience, so i can find a picture of a table that is not on my website when i want it, and also so folks can see the different styles we work in.  this is certainly not all of the tables we have made, but it does cover some stylistic ground, from high traditional, to contemporary slabs.  click any photo at the link above to start the show, and enjoy your tour.  a few of the highlights are directly below.

some have carved details

 

some are very traditional

some are made from one slab of wood, in this case bubinga

and some have inlays and specific stylistic details ..

anyway, there are many different tables in the slide show, and were always on the lookout for new opportunities to stretch our design legs .. send us your ideas and well have at it ..

ps ... im working on getting links from the photos to the blog posts, but it will probably be a while before i finish that part of the show .. enjoy!

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happy new year !

well, were off to 2014 ... on to our 35th year of full time furniture building .. i wish all my readers, my clients, and my family and friends all the best for the upcoming year.  its another door to open and another path to follow .. well see where it leads ... 

if you like, at this link, you can see where that path took us in a slideshow of our work from 2013 ..

click the first photo to start the slideshow ...
 i hope that this upcoming year will be equally challenging and interesting ... 

other slideshows at the links below
2009
2010
2011
2012

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so heres yet another staggering statistic

station WXYK, 107.1, the monkey, in gulfport, mississippi posted a photo of our stairs back in july of 2012.  i have been hearing reports from friends that this photo has been floating around on the internet for a while now.  i guess so ... i got an email from my client about a week ago who had gotten an email from her sister-in-law on the 4th of january telling her that she had seen her stairs on facebook.  at that time, the photo had, i think, 491,000 shares.  i checked today, and it has gone over a half million shares now ... viral, id say.  so, unfortunately, the monkey forgot to give us credit for building them, if they even knew.   i think we missed a major marketing boat ..  maybe next time.  but then, theres a link there now, and, its still going .. 9,000 shares in three days is not too shabby. 

heres a link to an april 2014 blog post about adding a railing to those stairs ..

and heres a link to a blog post on an even bigger set we built and sent to palo alto in april of 2009.

 below we have our other staggering statistic, one million blog page views ... and after about 6 years of blogging, i was considering hanging up my pen ... i think ill go for a while longer now ..

id love to hear some comments here .. thanks!  dan

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happy new year again

new years day .. a time of reflection and optimism .. todays sunset above augurs well for 2015.  red sky at night; sailors delight .... isnt that the saying?  2014 was an interesting and challenging year .. a little above average, actually.  some jobs just flowed; some jobs were like pulling teeth .. some had easy deadlines, and some, like the last three weeks of them, were rapid fire, one after another rush, rush, rush.  its also possible that in reality, my management skills may be fading as i enter my 36th year of this grand production.  alls well that ends well though, and its onward to 2015.  while ive been working on this slide show of the highlights of 2014 for a couple of weeks, i just finished it today, in time for the new year.

heres the link to it 
click an image there and arrow through it.. while you are there,
you can also access more albums from other years, like the ones below
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
live edge tables
furniture from reclaimed lumber
sams metal work
a hundred or more dining tables
digitized sketchbooks
stuff you can do with a cnc router
happy new year to you all, and all the best for 2015.

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