The piece
A ten-seat table in Claro walnut, built around a wedged through-tenon base that comes apart for moving and will never wobble.
The clients wanted one table for every birthday, holiday and ordinary Tuesday for the next fifty years. We walked the lumber yard together and picked boards from a single Claro walnut log, so the grain runs unbroken down the full eleven feet of the top.
The base is joined with drawbored through-tenons — no screws, no brackets, nothing to loosen. It flat-packs with a mallet and a soft cloth, and goes back together in ten minutes. Finished with linseed oil and beeswax, so a scratch sands out and re-oils in an afternoon.
Why it works
- Single-log top, book-matched boards
- Wedged through-tenon base, knock-down
- Oil-and-wax finish, repairable for life
Specifications
- Material
- Claro walnut, Willamette Valley
- Dimensions
- 11 ft × 42 in × 30 in · seats ten
- Finish
- Linseed oil + beeswax, matte
- Made
- 2024
- Commission lead time
- 8–10 weeks from deposit