I built this dining table top for an arborist who gives me logs. I do projects for him occasionally as payment. The red oak for this table came from logs he gave me last Summer. The Sapele was my contribution and was leftover from another project.
The top is 42 x 95 x 1-1/2" and weighs 160 lbs. It's so heavy that I was afraid we wouldn't be able to carry it up out of my basement shop, so after I had the boards milled and biscuits slots cut we carried the individual boards up, took them to his house, and I glued them up there. The alignment was so good that it only needed a couple of hours of sanding to get it ready for finishing. I cut the ends square on site with a circular saw and straightedge and then ran a simple chamfer around the edges. He finished the top with Minwax oil modified WB polyurethane using a foam brush. He did a really good job. You can't see the base but it's a pair of old steel lab bench legs that he sand blasted and painted. Nothing special, but it's plenty stout.
John