Shaker style table

 This table was built for Amy and Chris.  The wood is hard maple from Cedar Lake with door panels from spalted maple.  The design is an adaptation of measured drawings of Thomas Moser, the noted Shaker furniture maker from Maine.  I think it will be a piece that fits well in their living room and serves them for many years.

The table has a moveable shelf and a back with splined vertical boards.  The stain is white oak and it is finished with polyurethane.  It seemed to take forever to make as I started it before going North for the summer and then worked around the hunting season.  As usual, I started from the air-dried rough planks and boards stored in the barn.  The maple is really hard; tools have to be very sharp.