Dining table with natural edge bookmatched figured maple boards

Don KondraDon Kondra Registered Users Posts: 630 Major grins
edited March 31, 2015 in Other Cool Shots
Newly installed in My kitchen !

Spalted/figured maple boards and ceramic tiles for the top, the ends or "feet" are figured Bubinga.

The table is for sale but I need to store it somewhere :wink

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Cheers, Don
Don Kondra - Furniture Designer/Maker
Product Photography
My Acreage Bird Photographs

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  • denisegoldbergdenisegoldberg Administrators Posts: 14,393 moderator
    edited March 29, 2015
    This is gorgeous Don!

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  • ThelensspotThelensspot Registered Users Posts: 2,041 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2015
    Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!
    Great job!
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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2015
    Wow! Scandinavian Designs would probably want 5K from me if they were selling this!
  • Don KondraDon Kondra Registered Users Posts: 630 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2015
    denisegoldberg wrote: »
    This is gorgeous Don!

    --- Denise

    Thank you Denise !
    Thelensspot wrote: »
    Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!
    Great job!

    Thank you Wayne !
    Stumblebum wrote: »
    Wow! Scandinavian Designs would probably want 5K from me if they were selling this!

    And that would be a Deal, you're not even close mwink.gif

    Cheers, Don
    Don Kondra - Furniture Designer/Maker
    Product Photography
    My Acreage Bird Photographs
  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2015
    Oh no....now I am afraid to ask....but what would this be going for Don?
  • CavalierCavalier Registered Users Posts: 3,077 Major grins
    edited March 30, 2015
    Amazing work Don. I have a friend that is a talented woodworker- I have to show this to him - he will sooooo appreciate the work that went into this!
    Jo West
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  • Don KondraDon Kondra Registered Users Posts: 630 Major grins
    edited March 30, 2015
    Stumblebum wrote: »
    Oh no....now I am afraid to ask....but what would this be going for Don?

    $14,000 plus crating and shipping. But that is in Canadian dollars mwink.gif
    Cavalier wrote: »
    Amazing work Don. I have a friend that is a talented woodworker- I have to show this to him - he will sooooo appreciate the work that went into this!

    Thank you Jo !

    Cheers, Don
    Don Kondra - Furniture Designer/Maker
    Product Photography
    My Acreage Bird Photographs
  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited March 30, 2015
    Thanks for letting me know what I can't have! ;o)
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,325 Major grins
    edited March 30, 2015
    Beautiful table. Really outstanding.....and I'm not a huge fan of that style furniture. Super job on handling the lighting on this series. Well done.

    I'm not at all surprised on the table's pricing. I love to get out among some of the true furniture artisans up in the Appalachians. In doing so, I've come to really appreciate the overall skill package it takes to create works of art, such as your table here. And sticker shock, for the really fine stuff out there, disappears rapidly.

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • Don KondraDon Kondra Registered Users Posts: 630 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2015
    Thanks so much Tom !

    I'm not really a fan of wane edge either but I couldn't force myself to cut it off...

    The wane edge on the Bubinga board was at such an angle, a book match would have looked awkward. So I decided to saw off the edge square to the natural edge of the board.

    I believe that nicely complements the wane edge of the top boards...

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    Cheers, Don
    Don Kondra - Furniture Designer/Maker
    Product Photography
    My Acreage Bird Photographs
  • CCoopCCoop Registered Users Posts: 511 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2015
    All I can say is Wow to the craftsmanship. Simply beautiful!! And nicely photographed ... in your studio? --Carter
  • Don KondraDon Kondra Registered Users Posts: 630 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2015
    Thank you Carter !

    Yes, in my studio mwink.gif

    Some of my wood shop tools are on casters and/or mobile bases so I can create a space large enough to shoot items such as tables.

    This is an older image with the shop in "making sawdust" mode..

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    And with some of my tools moved out of the way. This represents the front 26' x 26' of my shop, there is another 10' behind the camera.

    At the front I have installed chains from the ceiling to hang a 9' x 36' seamless paper roll.

    The lights are roughly positioned to give you an idea and my work bench is in its normal spot, it can be moved back another three feet.

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    Cheers, Don
    Don Kondra - Furniture Designer/Maker
    Product Photography
    My Acreage Bird Photographs
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