A friend gave me a walnut tree (not black walnut) from his back yard. Another friend with a sawmill cut it into boards for me if I could get it to his house about two hours away. Well you should have seen how loaded down my poor little red pickup truck was. I had to drive all back roads to get … it there. I air dried the boards in my basement for almost two years before I could begin using them. Many beautiful pieces came from that tree including this table which is actually a set of two. The top and aprons are of walnut. The top has mahogany breadboard ends and a bead design that is continued on the bottom of the aprons. The legs are of black walnut with a thin piece of walnut laminated in the middle. The bottom 5" of the legs were cut off; tapered; rotated 90 degrees; reattached with dowels; and a small v-chamfer cut at the joint. It was finished with a drawer.

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