Dining Tables

Enjoying a meal at a handcrafted dining table can be one of a woodworker's great pleasures. Here, in his new book, Kim Carleton Graves, one of America's top woodworkers, provides plans and instructions for building dining tables that would make any woodworker proud. The dining tables range in difficulty from a simple trestle table to a formal veneered table. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced woodworker, Dining Tables provides plenty of challenges to increase your skills and give you a range of projects for various lifestyles. It includes attractive, practical projects that are accessible to most woodworkers above the novice level, projects in a variety of different styles, such as Country, Shaker, Traditional Colonial, and Queen Anne, so you are bound to find something that you want to build. A chapter on general construction strategies shows you the principles involved in building dining tables; you also get what you need to know to develop successful designs of your own. Also included are detailed cut lists to help you get started and measured drawings that illustrate the finer points of construction. USA origin.