John and Amy have large parties with a lot of friends and sometimes even have their family over ...

They asked us to build them a super large table and here it is. 52" wide, 16 feet long with two bridge girder iron bases.

It's so big, I couldn't get a proper picture and, at about 1400 lbs, we hope that John and Amy don't ask us to make another!

A new house, a new need. A table for the masses.

Live edge walnut with forged metal base.

Foundation

Possibly the last of the bridge girder bases we'll be able to make is here used below heavily figured oak to make a solid (and weighty) dining table.

43" x 96" x 30"

Sawbuck

Handsomely grained oak on a metal base we had fashioned from salvaged I-beams.

39 1/2" x 84" x 30"

A different story in the grain every dinner!

Surprisingly light - or heavy - depending on who's lifting it.

Trestle Table

This beauty will spend a few days on the showroom floor before being picked up. When Scott finishes a table like this, he gets giddy and wants to dance on it in stocking feet. I manage to keep him off of most of them.

How to Clean it?

Spray table with spring dew, lay a Hudson's Bay beach blanket at close end, take running dive across top, have friend catch you.

Cribbage Table

Live Edge Conference Table

Just finished, this walnut conference table is made from two live edge planks out of Waterloo set atop a pair of cast iron bridge girder bases. Heavy, man.

Industrial Console Table

Powerful form and strking lines define this console that Scott just designed. The base is cast iron from a machine that made (insert your favourite thing here) and a maple butcher block top.

58" x 15" x 33 1/2" - $925

The Makings ...

Scott has put a number of these together for tables but hasn't gotten any further because he can't decide whether to have this at the bottom or the top.

Then, he came across some date squares and forgot all about it.

Trestle Table

Salvaged barn board - comfortably seats ten.

Live Edge Console Table

The top is live edge walnut, the shelf below live edge maple but the body is cherry we cut from some 1860s barn braces we had - gorgeous wood.

Though its hard to see in the photos, each leg has a soft arc running from the top to bottom to ease the eye and Margaret added the quarter point details under the top - a surprise when you come across them.

Not Old But Salvage, Nonetheless

These live edge walnut planks came from a very large tree in Waterloo. Measuring roughly 24" wide, 2" thick and 14 feet long, they would make an incredible conference table or dining table of note.

Air dried for about a year, they are now at the kiln for a final drying. Call us if you have a use for them.

Sneek Peak

Here's something we're working on. The sturdy iron base is made from a bridge girder, heavily rivited. It weighs about 200 lbs.

On top, you see a 36" x 84" hemlock top destined for someone else but it shows how great a dining table or conference table this could be.

We can make 3 of these so they won't last long. Size and colour are open to your needs (within reason).

Fresh Fodder

A recent rash of table making has produced these three coffee tables and one that might make a great island.

All on a whim - all ready to go.

Live Edge Walnut Dining Table

Not antique, no, but not everything we do is old.

This lovely cut of walnut was found in a local workshop and now serves as a very big dining table.

Butcher Block Bench

20 solid blocks of hemlock beam salvaged from a local barn make up this hearty bench.

The striations of grain on the sides contrast charmingly the swirling rounds of the end grain on top

Roughly 70" x 14" x 17" (and something like 200 lbs.)

$2100

Kitchen Table

Small but sure, this roughly 3' x 4' table top is made from hemlock barn floor and pine barn braces for legs.

I don't know why but, all of a sudden, I feel like whippin up some multi-grain bread.

Something like this would run $950.

Industrial Pallet Table

This shot from the most recent Benjamin Moore Colour Trends Guide features a coffee table made from a mahogany pallet, used in the cement industry, laid atop a "rusty" metal frame.

Roughly 43" x 55" x 18"

If you like what you see, talk to us. This could be yours for $895.

Flywheel Console

This recently completed table is sold but we currently have the bits to make a couple more, if you should find yourself in need.

Salvaged pine around a cast iron wheel from a threshing machine found outside St Jacobs.

From $1400

Inside the truck.

Live Edge Lumber

Just off the truck, this collection of live edge walnut, cherry and chestnut came from a defunct woodworking shop. It's kiln dried and nicely aged - great for coffee tables, benches or what have you.

Call for pricing.

In the shop.

Stall Divider Coffee Table

This baby is leaving today for a party tonight. From what I understand, there will be dancing and champagne so we made sure the finish was strong enough for all likelihoods! Stilettos are its only weakness.

The top is a stall divider from the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto, sanded and varnished. It sits atop a heavy, angle iron leg base and the whole thing is roughly 46" x 56".

Unfortunately, we've run out of these and they are no more.

A handsome coffee table made from salvaged barn flooring and tapered angle iron legs. It looked really good here but, don't worry, we moved it inside.

$@%^%^#$# Big Table

We're delivering this $@$#%#$% big table this afternoon and kind of wish it was already done. 42" x 148" and really heavy - pine and hemlock salvaged from a local barn.

To clean: spray with cleaner, grab a beach towel, take a run and do your best superman dive. With practice, flying off the end will be less common.

Grader Blade Table

I don't know where Scott found this beast of a metal plate from a road grader but etched in my mind are the many times I moved it out of my way. It's about 150 lbs of "I'm not budging"!

Strangely, now that he's used it for the top of this table, my suffering is eased, the birds sing and spring seems just around the corner.

Though it has yet to be topped with its glass, the form is undeniable.

62" x 16" x 32" - $1500

Large Grate Table

The grate is one of the larger ones we've ever had and never even made it into the showroom.

Here, it is laid into a hemlock barn floor border atop heavy, angle iron legs.

An older concept that still holds true!

Fly Wheel Console

This table shows of the art of form that even the most practical of industrial elements can possess.

We've built the table around it with salvaged pine and left the wheel as found for contrast.

Burnished Copper Table

We've done a few of these tops as consoles and coffee tables.

The texture of the hemlock border is repeated in the slender, tapered leg but it's the rich look of the copper that makes you want to dive right in.

Heavy Pine Table

The wood has been hiding here for years waiting for the right project and here it is.

Very tactile, one feels the need to caress (the table).

At 42" wide and 108" long, ten could finish dinner with a debate about whether the first star is really a planet.

The legs and stretcher elements were once the structure of a massive loom.

60 1/4"w x 16"d x 33 1/2"h

Sold

Trestle Table

It's being picked up this afternoon so I thought I would get a shot out there before it goes.

The base is a combination of pine and elm beam pieces, the top hemlock granary boards.

A lovely bench with the same soft top accompanies the table.

Just on the floor today - and this one is still available! A cast iron flywheel from an old threshing machine on the bottom, 2" thick pine barn flooring banded in metal and, voila! 18" high x 42" wide.