Hall Table Finished

[Rob Luter]

I've been working on this for a while now. It still needs a rubdown with BriWax but the light was good for pics. QSWO and RSWO with tons of flake and figure. M & T Construction. The finish is reddish brown dye, then dark walnut stain, then garnet shellac (The Homestead Finishing Mission Method).

[Joe Leigh]

Outstanding....the figure in the front legs is spectacular!
Great job.

[John Keeton]

Rob, very, very nice work! While I have both of the recipes from Jeff saved in my files, I have never used either. I certainly like the looks of the one you have used, and I love the straightforward style of the hall table. It looks very well situated, as well.

[Wayne Sparkman]

Beautiful work, and true to the style.

[Prashun Patel]

Nice legs! That's a great piece. I love the finish.

[John Thompson]

Excellent piece Rob. That is an extremely nice finish you provided for it also. I had wondered about how to get a reddish caste to a few pieces I have done so.. thanks for revealing your schedule as that definitely has the reddish caste. Looks very nice in your home with surroundings and that hard-wood floor is a compliment.

While I am at it.. very nice job on the pictures taken outside as the photo thing is an extremely weak spot for me even though I am getting a bit better with others advice.

Well done... indeed, well done!

[Rob Luter]

Thanks to all for the kind words. Ive done a number of Mission/Arts and Crafts pieces but this is the first time I've used the dye + stain process promoted by Jeff Jewitt and Homestead Finishing. I have to say I'm a believer in this finishing process.

(link: http://www.homesteadfinishingproduct..._rev3-2009.pdf)

It looked really good until I applied the shellac, then it looked WOW! The grain and flake really pops and the dye really warms it up. The outdoor pictures in bright sunshine don't really show the finish accurately. In reality it's a fairly dark warm brown and is looks closer to what's depicted in the interior shot.

[glenn bradley]

Very nice. I love the clean elegant design.

[gary Zimmel]

Very nice work on the hall table Rob.

Great fleck on that QSWO!

[Walt Caza]

Congrats Rob,
All I can say is your table feels old.
Which is really saying everything.

Well executed, and most appealing colour I have seen for fresh Craftsman style.
You may have spurred me to try my hand at JJ's Homestead finish schedule.

May I ask...
What approach did you use to build your legs?

Very handsome design. Carries heft but plenty airy.
Pleasing to my eye both in sunshine and indoors.
Good show,
Thanks for the peek,
Walt

ps What are you building next?
I can't wait...

[Shawn Pixley]

Great job! Your piece is almost a perfect match for my original book / display case.

[Rob Luter]

Congrats Rob,

May I ask...
What approach did you use to build your legs?

Hi Walt,

The legs are just QSWO. I'd like to boast about quadralinear construction and all that, but I'm not that skilled. I just found some wood with great flake on the QS sides and "rift like" straight grain on the flat sawn sides. Flake is forward on the front legs and to the sides on the back legs. The exposed tenons and corbels on the sides of the front legs offer enough interest so the lack of flake doesn't really matter. I looked long and hard for some rift sawn with the grain at 45 degrees but had no luck. I rolled the dice on the arrangement I went with and it came out OK.

BTW - I got your PM. Let me clean up the plans and I'll send them to you. Just PM your email. For that matter I can just post the .pdf here.

- Rob

[Von Bickley]

Rob,

You nailed that one.......

Beautiful wood, Great style and Great craftsmanship........

[Mark Valsi]

Very nice job !!

you got the proportions exact, and the craftsmanship shows.

I really like the finish too !!! good job !!!

[John Thompson]

Rob... try the quad-linear sometime when you get some spare time if that's possible. Really not that hard once you get the hang of it as hand cut DT's are. I use poplar or maple cores on my quad-linears so you not only get fleck on all sides but.. save a bit of QS to boot.

And yep.. a piece in sun-light will most definitely look darker inside where there are more shadows and less light with it being of a totally different source.

I like both the outside and inside shades of color depicted by both the sun and interior lighting of your table BTW... so for me the shade is irrelevant to the end result.

Again.. excellent job!