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The Ninety-Six
Eight-foot black walnut dining table, breadboard ends, tapered solid legs. Seats eight comfortably, ten if everyone is being reasonable.
$7,40011 weeks
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Eight-foot black walnut dining table, breadboard ends, tapered solid legs. Seats eight comfortably, ten if everyone is being reasonable.
Sixty by thirty, solid top, steel understructure. Yes, steel. I've heard the argument against metal legs and concluded it's mostly about somebody else's taste.
Round walnut pedestal table, bow tie inlays, brass detail. Designed at forty-two inches. Delivered at forty-one, for reasons the client has in writing.
A third of the people who write to me about a large dining table leave with this instead. Fits the room, costs a fifth as much, nobody's come back unhappy.
Delivery note · The Forty-One
A copy of the note that shipped with the table. This is standard. Every piece gets one.
The table was drawn at forty-two inches in diameter. It is forty-one.
During the final profiling pass, the guide bearing worked loose off the router bit. By the time the cutter had told me about it, there was a gouge in a place a gouge could not stay.
There were two honest options: start again on a new slab, at cost, and delay you by nine weeks — or take the diameter down by an inch and lose the damage entirely. You chose the inch. I'd have chosen the inch.
The bow ties, which were drawn as decorative, are now doing a small amount of real work. That's fine. That's what they're for.
Nobody was filming when it happened, which I found educational.
| Spec | As drawn | As built |
|---|---|---|
| Diameter | 42" | 41" |
| Bow ties | Decorative | Mildly structural |
| Bearings | Attached | Formerly attached |
| Delay | 9 weeks | None |
| Discount applied | — | $400, unprompted |
The entire catalogue
This is all of it. There's no second page and no bundle that unlocks the good version.
Forty minutes. Eleven of them are me explaining why you shouldn't pour resin into a perfectly good slab. No modules, no community, no upsell at minute thirty-eight.
A carpenter's pencil. It makes a line on wood so you know where to cut. No forging step, no heritage, no waiting list. Ships in an envelope.
Nine hours of continuous sanding. No music, no commentary, no cuts. I removed this from a video once and people wrote in asking for it back. Fine. I don't understand you.
You put the sandpaper in the bin. Then the sandpaper is in the bin. I'm not charging you for this.