Custom Table by John Buchanan

Finally received the beautiful custom table made by John Buchanan. I wanted to thank Duane for helping to facilitate everything.

I've attached a few pics:

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The table is based on a double pedestal design by Baker furniture. The tabletop is Rosewood edge, then Ebony line then 1/4 sawn walnut racetrack inlay (which is about 80 years old from the Steinway Piano company in NY) then another ebony line. The center of the top is made of figured walnut that I picked out with John from a specialty wood shop in Oxford, PA. The base is made out of Cherry.

It was well worth the wait! We look forward to our first Thanksgiving in our Dining Room...

Nancy

Wow! That's impressive!

Seats 200, weighs in at 9600 pounds.... ;)

Really nice work. If it's like my Buchanan pieces (much smaller) it looks even better in person.

Incredibly beautiful!!!!!

Glad you like it, Nancy! And I'm glad we got it there unscathed as well. John was going to bring it in his Ford Van, but I didn't want him cramming it into his little truck, too much chance of it getting marked. So I send Tommy down to John's place on Saturday to pick it up -even though it was a four hour drive each way. Better safe than sorry. There are 27 coats of finish on your table as I recall and it would be very hard to touch up the finish so we took extra care in transport.

It's a beauty. Its the most exotic table we've ever made and it took far - far - far longer than John had ever planned on. I know we were over a year past the promise date on it, but it was just so involved and John also lost 4 months of work with his daughter's kidnapping last summer and into the fall.

Thank you for you patience, I know it was a long haul on it. And thanks for the photos!

A couple more photos of this most wonderful table. This was a massive project for John, and he told me that in his 40 years of cabinetmaking he'd never underestimated a time and build cost as severely as he did with Nancy's table. But to his credit he took no shortcuts nor asked for more money when he realized he was 'underwater' on it - he's a man of honor. Well done, John.

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