What type of wood is this table made out of?

[jacko9]

That's the problem, the "special project " is lacking a design at the moment.  I purchased 1000 bf of 8/4 stock for a door project and asked for some wider boards.  You can imagine my surprise when the truck pulled up with those timbers on top.  I had to cut one of them because it was too long for my lumber storage rack.  I used a bow saw to slice one section for book matched door panels (that was the days before digital cameras).

Jack

 

[avrs22]

That's the problem, the "special project " is lacking a design at the moment.  I purchased 1000 bf of 8/4 stock for a door project and asked for some wider boards.  You can imagine my surprise when the truck pulled up with those timbers on top.  I had to cut one of them because it was too long for my lumber storage rack.  I used a bow saw to slice one section for book matched door panels (that was the days before digital cameras).

Jack

End tables and coffee tables comes to mind, chest of drawer too.
What a awesome looking wood that type of mahogany wood is.

I went to drop off the legs at the cottage today, the 5' table top will need a pick up truck to get it there.
I took the time to look around.
There is a double drop leaf table, A awesome old 1/4 sawn oak table with rope twist around the table, a cabinet bar that looks like its made from the same mahogany wood as the table, 2 old chest of drawer, and the 6 chairs that looks to be the chairs that goes with the table.
Everything was left there when the old priest sold the old tiny cottage.
Il take some pictures and post them here when I go drop off the table top in a few days.

BTW thanks for the compliments on my work guys.

 

[jacko9]

That's the problem, the "special project " is lacking a design at the moment.  I purchased 1000 bf of 8/4 stock for a door project and asked for some wider boards.  You can imagine my surprise when the truck pulled up with those timbers on top.  I had to cut one of them because it was too long for my lumber storage rack.  I used a bow saw to slice one section for book matched door panels (that was the days before digital cameras).

Jack

End tables and coffee tables comes to mind, chest of drawer too.
What a awesome looking wood that type of mahogany wood is.

I went to drop off the legs at the cottage today, the 5' table top will need a pick up truck to get it there.
I took the time to look around.
There is a double drop leaf table, A awesome old 1/4 sawn oak table with rope twist around the table, a cabinet bar that looks like its made from the same mahogany wood as the table, 2 old chest of drawer, and the 6 chairs that looks to be the chairs that goes with the table.
Everything was left there when the old priest sold the old tiny cottage.
Il take some pictures and post them here when I go drop off the table top in a few days.

BTW thanks for the compliments on my work guys.

You did a fantastic job rescuing a table that somebody else might have just covered with paint.  Here are a couple of examples of my Honduras mahogany work (all pieces are solid mahogany).

Jack

 

[avrs22]

That's the problem, the "special project " is lacking a design at the moment.  I purchased 1000 bf of 8/4 stock for a door project and asked for some wider boards.  You can imagine my surprise when the truck pulled up with those timbers on top.  I had to cut one of them because it was too long for my lumber storage rack.  I used a bow saw to slice one section for book matched door panels (that was the days before digital cameras).

Jack

End tables and coffee tables comes to mind, chest of drawer too.
What a awesome looking wood that type of mahogany wood is.

I went to drop off the legs at the cottage today, the 5' table top will need a pick up truck to get it there.
I took the time to look around.
There is a double drop leaf table, A awesome old 1/4 sawn oak table with rope twist around the table, a cabinet bar that looks like its made from the same mahogany wood as the table, 2 old chest of drawer, and the 6 chairs that looks to be the chairs that goes with the table.
Everything was left there when the old priest sold the old tiny cottage.
Il take some pictures and post them here when I go drop off the table top in a few days.

BTW thanks for the compliments on my work guys.

You did a fantastic job rescuing a table that somebody else might have just covered with paint.  Here are a couple of examples of my Honduras mahogany work (all pieces are solid mahogany).

Jack

Great work Jack
The first pic and the mantle are my favorite. It looks like the finish on it was well done too.
I wish I had the skills to build something like that, its a dream of mine.
But I'm mostly a finisher/refinisher.
I make the stuff the pros build look the way it should.
I often see great stuff with great craftmanship that has really bad finish jobs.
They tell me I wish I could do what you do.
I tell them I wish I could do what you do.

 

[avrs22]

or the entertainment cabinet is my favorite.

 

[jacko9]

Thanks,

I'm sure you'll get to the craftsman level over time and you'll most likely outshine my work by a long shot.  The last piece in those photos was built over 30 years ago and the bottom door panels were from some of that wide mahogany.

Jack

 

[iamnothim]

Yo avr
Unbelievable!  What a find!

8/4 material of some amazing species that is sawn and built book matched.  "Are you kidding me???"
I have this vision of an old saw mill slicing that bad boy and an artisan fabricating it.

 

[avrs22]

I had a antique guy come and look at it.
He said he thinks its a reproduction of a piece that was made in the 1750s that was made in the 1850s
He was also blown away by the wood being 7/8 thick, bookmarked and solid.
He said usually it would be veneer.
He ended up staring at the top for about 20 minutes.

 

[iamnothim]

I had a antique guy come and look at it.
He said he thinks its a reproduction of a piece that was made in the 1750s that was made in the 1850s
He was also blown away by the wood being 7/8 thick, bookmarked and solid.
He said usually it would be veneer.
He ended up staring at the top for about 20 minutes.

It is magnificent.