Dining table woods?

[Ken Fitzgerald]

What domestic hardwood would you use for a dining table and why?

[Thomas McCurnin]

Quarter Sawn Oak. Because it is gorgeous and stable.

Black Walnut. Because it is also gorgeous and cuts and planes like hard soap.

[Cary Falk]

Hard Maple to resist nicks and dings.

[Phillip Mitchell]

I’ll add Ash to the list.

[Jon Grider]

Whatever wood the misses desires just because .

[Jim Becker]

For "my" style? Cherry or walnut primarily. I'd consider ash or white oak (rift sawn) or English Brown Oak if it was the right look for the project.

[lou Brava]

I went White Oak



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[Andrew Hughes]

I also like white oak and walnut.
. Iou table looks great odd numbers of boards to make up the top always look the best to me.
Good luck Ken

[Mark Rainey]

Ken, go with cherry. Beautiful figure. Easy to machine and easy for hand tools. And most importantly relatively light. An oak or hard maple dining table can be a bit on the heavy side for us senior citizens.

[Richard Coers]

Any wood that can't dent from a ball point pen. Birds eye maple is what I used.

[Kent A Bathurst]

Qswo

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[Zachary Hoyt]

Cherry is what I used for ours. I like the color.

[Rich Engelhardt]

My wife likes red oak...... I love cherry.
Our old house had cherry kitchen cabinets.

I have a stock of red oak waiting for my shop to get set up.

[Lee Schierer]

If I were to build a dining room table, I would use White Oak, Red Oak, Maple (hard or soft), Cherry, Walnut or Ash. Hickory would be great, but would end up weighing a ton.

[John Kananis]

Oh man, I really wouldn't want to make a dining table top out of hickory. I mean, unless I felt really guilty about something and thought I needed to punish myself somehow lol.