The table
shown here is
made of solid birch.
There is
no plywood or particle board found
here.
Two
removable (grain-matched) leaves were made for this table, allowing it to be
either 7, 8 or 9 feet long.
An Interesting
Requirement!
The client
required it be sturdy enough to hold two dancing 200lb
people on it. Now that’s
custom! When the
customer arrived to pick this piece up, I had put the two
leaves in and was sitting in the center of the 9’ table.
(That’s
180lbs on the weakest point of the table!).
The matching solid birch
buffet also had some interesting requirements:
“It needs
to be this tall”
(customer held hand
parallel to floor and I measured from there).
“It needs
to be this long”
(customer held arms
outstretched and I measured from there),
If you
look closely at the pictures, you’ll see the top is not perfectly flat.
It was
hand-planed. 
