Well, OK, we finished up the 26 x 9 table on Friday. It took a lot of people and a lot of steps and processes and, when it was done, I was disappointed to find that it almost looked easy ... except when you stop to think about it ... The pieces were made in my shop and then assembled in my garage on temporary bases while the real bases were being fabricated in Steve Holmans shop down the road. I had no place to easily set up either table in my shop while it was pretty easy to clean out my garage ... We did set the 20 foot table up (below) in Steves shop (after moving two tools and disassembling part of his dust collection system) on its real base to check it and then reassembled it one more time here to check the final fit when we received all the cut granite pieces and fitted the center pieces. Whew .. just writing about his one is a lot of work .... Step by step we go .... click the pictures to enlarge them ..
This is the 20 table ... This previous post is all about that one ... Theres a video of Trevor doing a stroll around the table here ...
The base pieces for the 20 foot table in the finishing process ... 
Ok ... back at the garage where we disassembled the top of the 26 table from its temporary base,
Swept the floor ...
Brought in the real base parts
Assembled those and leveled them up ..
Added the steel ...
Next, we reinstalled the mdf top pieces and faired the curves and tops of the curved cherry moldings. This assured us that the notches for the steel in the otriggers, and the 56 holes tapped in the 14 piece of steel ( 7 different lengths) lined up with the 56 countersunk holes in the mdf top pieces and that everything would fit and tighten up, and once it gets to its final home, things will go together smoothly. We decided early on that neither table would be assembled after the parts were finished until it reaches its final destination ... As you can see above, there are a LOT of pieces and its alchoices risky to move things like that around ....
Ready for the granite and panels.. You can see the bolts in this photo. Those bolts were integral to the engineering and support of the cantilevered granite pieces ...
14 of the 18, 2 x 44.6" pieces of granite in place here
All in .. all fitted ... There are 32 places where at least four points come together and line up with other points on the table ... 1 of the 32 places below .. two cherry, two granite and a center panel
By the end of the day Friday ... all the parts that needed veneering and finishing were at Steves and I was left with a half empty garage and 5 carts with 28 pieces of granite .... party time !!!There are several other earlier posts so that you can get the whole feel for the process HERE and HERE.
ok, heres a big one ... 40 " wide, 12 long, with our standard steel shaker base. this time we did the steel in our new rainbow finish. we purchased this new patina color from our friends at sur-fin chemical company. its a little fussier and more unpredictable than our regular blackening chemical, but the results are quite striking. browns and blacks with subtle hints of other colors in the right light. looks great with the expresso finish on this table ... .
the expresso finish was a request from the designer, and we had to make a number of samples before we got one we all liked. the finish that we used this time appears thinner, and more like an oil finish, and we plan to try it on some of our upcoming natural finish tables.
there was also a request for no cracks, which led us to advanced repair technologies no shrink, tintable, epoxy filler. after a little experimenting, that new product is also a hit with us. it takes a couple of days to dry really hard, but if we hit it right, we can do it on a friday and flush it up monday ... 
as seen on this old house
the filled crack after leveling ... trevor loosely fitted some pieces of walnut with similar grain into the largest of the cracks before filling them. 
this crack is in one of the other, natural finish tables were working on and we filled this large crack with smaller pieces of the darkest wood we can find, which was also an effective technique ... more on that table later ...
the slab was too big to get to the cnc upstairs, so trevor routed for the bases by hand with a bearing and a template.
the bottom of the 10 natural table ...
and will in steve holmans spray booth before the final topcoats over the expresso stain ... nice booth ... nice finish ...
georgine macgarvey and barbara melhado organized the show again this year, with assistance from penny and jim viscusi. they rounded up the usual suspects, including above and below, matt harding. his painted steel sculpture is out the front door, on the town green.
a room full of harry shoklers
and other fine artists too numerous to mention ... the show runs through september 16th ... stop in ...
ok, claro wlanut, i love this wood ... fancy, warm, vibrantly figured most of the time, stable, flat; its all good ... and we have made a lot of stuff with it. lately, as we get more requests for custom pieces, i have come to feel the need to have some photos of our different items in one place ... a sort of, here, this about sums it up link, so i dont have to get a picture here, get another picture there, 
first up, cause i like the warm and fuzzy photo at the top, is this coffee table we made for a client in the boston area, who actually had the luxury of keeping it on her covered porch along with a collection of our outdoor lounge chairs ...
sometimes, at the end of a project we even get letters like the one above .. my home has been trumped by the table ... hmmmm, i doubt it, cause ive seen photos of the house, but its a nice compliment, regardless. it goes with the table on the crossbuck base below, and 
but heres another early one, and the first table we did with the solid steel base, what we refer to as our shaker style legs ... learning process on that one ... but, we got er done, and have done many others with that style legs in both bright and blackened steel 
we made a little model first on the cnc and sprayed it with the krylon metalllic paint. looks like the real thing, only a tenth as big ...
the finished table, cut from its background
birds eye view of the grain in the top ...
sometimes we have to assist mother nature in getting the shape exactly right
but alls well that ends well ....
this was a big one ... about 4 wide and 11 long ... 
and above is another letter from a happy desk client ... some drawers and secret compartments made for a really special desk ... this was a recent one from late last year ... 
we start with slabs like this one; in fact we bought four from 
this was a fantastic piece of wood when it was all polished up, and its now happy in its new home in the hamptons ... california to 
several tables have our ladderback chairs in one form or another ... these above sport nice bomber jacket leather seats.
the raw material ... often, not perfect, though with lots and lots of potential ...
this one heads off to england next week in a pair of crates via ocean freight. even more miles on that one ... this has a new base design based on our designer clients input ... again, a model was helpful in determining the final proportions ... 
the leg assemblies are drilled tapped and bolted together and can be easily shipped flat, in pieces.
and we often add butterflies to both decorate and stabilize the cracks.
this one is 
great figure and grain character in this one ... 
and this is the last slab from the spectacular log you have seen in some of the previous pictures. its from closest to the center of the log and probably has, actually, the best figure yet. it was completely cracked into two pieces when it arrived, and we intend, in the end, to probably use it as two pieces, connected by butterflies, but separated as above by a 1/4 inch or so. even without finish the color is amazing ... call now to discuss your options ...
sometimes a client will select a slab from the goodhope 
and now were at the sawbuck base table that goes with the letter at the top ... 
solid, twist and reverse twisted 1.25" steel crosspiece by sam in the metal shop ...
or we can weld other steel base designs from structural stock ... these pieces were fabricated by sam in the metal shop from 3/4" stock and some round, 1.5" solid bar stock
some polished or black pipe legs .. instant coffee table
and sometimes we get to make a little bench for a new york city apartment entrance hall ... this one is 36" x 15". small, but i love the form and it opens up the possibility for others like it as well as new dining table base designs.
specs and shapes of our available leg designs, all of which can be customized and made heavier, lighter, wider, or shorter, as you wish. our most popular is the one above, in 1.5" thick steel.
and pretty much any welded shape you can come up with can be fabricated 
and here, ill talk 
