African Mahogany Bridgetable With Tung Oil Finish

comments (2) June 29th, 2010 in Reader's Gallery

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My wife owned a fifty years old African mahogany bookcase, made in Nairobi, Kenya made by a well known furniture maker, named Mac Crea. The wood is beautiful, but the bookcase was too big for our home in Delft in the Netherlands. I promised her to to take it apart and made a bridgetable and other furniture out of it.


Design or Plan used: My own design - Th.A. Fransen
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jamesbreaux jamesbreaux writes: Wow, I think the ziggurat design is a winner. Upside-down it has the allure of a 19th century diorama of a Mayan or Incan pyramid. I imagine more than one of your fellow woodworkers will find some element of a future design inspired by your bridge table. Thanks for sharing.
Posted: 11:07 am on April 5th

Zaroff Zaroff writes: This table is serving as inspiration for me. I am planning to build L-shaped bench for our kitchen breakfast area and had always planned to build a square table with a center pedestal to make it easy to sit at the bench without corner legs interfering with sitting or sliding on/off bench.

I really like the design a lot and your execution is gorgeous. I hope you'll consider any of my attempts to build something similar as nothing but a compliment to a most excellent idea for a table.

I really like the center storage area and can envision my fiancee using it in the future for either storage or for special occasions to maybe put fruit and/or floral arrangement in it. I suspect you probably envisioned it as storage for bridge game paraphernalia, but since ours is more for breakfast area dining and maybe used occasionally as a game table leaves me wondering how we woudl use the center storage area.

Anyway, awesome design and a very beautiful piece.

Jim Woodward
Posted: 3:52 pm on June 29th

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