Tables

We use traditional mortise-and-tenon joinery for our tables.  In addition, we try for the widest boards we can get for the tops, and if we can't make the top from one board, we match the grain of the boards we join together.

Legs are always from solid stock - not glued up.  Drawers, if any, are hand-dovetailed.  We have a supplier who makes any custom inlay that we can't make here.

Gallery

Tilt-Top Table The top shape is an original design (for a tilt-top table), sometimes called a "porringer" shape after the small 18th Century dishes used to dispense treats. This was in my house for a long time, but a good customer finally talked me into selling it. I wish I had it back, and hope someone orders one soon so I can make an extra for myself.	Extension Table Ball and claw foot extension table in Honduras Mahogany. Opens out to ten feet. Fashioned after the great Georgian tables of the late 18th Century. The knee carving echoes some card tables made in Virginia ca. 1760, and the feet match some chairs belonging to the customer..	Chinese Altar Table Made in Honduras Mahogany after some photos in Chinese Domestic Furniture by Gustav Ecke, and an example that the customer had but didn't like.
Chinese Altar Table #2 Detail of the carved leg and brackets.	Breakfast Table We made this table for a customer who said it was a wee bit too small (after patterns, etc., the whole bit!). No problem. We use it ourselves everyday. In walnut.	Card Table #1 A flip-top card table in Honduras Mahogany. The rear leg swings out to support the top (see detail). The shape was derived from some Newport RI tables by the Townsend/Goddard clan, but we substituted plain feet for the ball and claw feet on those examples per the customer's request.
Card Table #2 Detail of the joinery under the top for the swing leg and apron.	Card Table #3 Shown open.	Chinese Coffee Table Another table drawn from the Chinese influence. Note the small brass trim strip on the top and the hand-carved corner brackets.
Coffee Table A contemporary coffee table in butternut (also known as white walnut), with a strip of inlay border around the edge of the top.	Demilune Table This table was designed to fit in a bay window (the latest thing in new homes but difficult to decorate), with the curved side inside the bay. We made many patterns to get a curve that was complementary to the angles of the bay window. We shaped the shelf in opposing curves. The table also serves nicely as a sofa table or a hall or console table.	Glass-topped Coffee Table
Victorian Table #1	Victorian Table #2	Ash Side Table
Trestle Table	Butler's Tray Table	Sawbuck Table #1
Sawbuck Table #2	Small Drop Leaf Table	Cherry Extension Table
Square Side Table