Melchizedek

Mike,
This post is especially for you. The official furniture connoisseur.

This table is dear to my heart. The table above is cool indeed but this table is Elegant with a capitol E.
Elegant trumps cool in my book every time. Cool can grow tiresome. But Elegance never grows old.

The table above was a joy and a privilege. But, and this is a big but. Everything about the table above became a struggle.
There was no doubt in my mind how to proceed but every step became the hard way. For a number of reasons. No explaining it, it just was.
The trouble with the table above was, There was 90 feet of each and ever procedure and many of those procedures became the hard way.
Life just goes like that some times.

On the other hand the table below flowed like warm butter. It was fabricated under very similar circumstances. An insane deadline and insanely long hours. But it went together smoothly and gave energy along the way. TeaCup sucked energy away.

Anyway, this table was completed in Nov 2011.
I won't comment till the end and just let the pictures tell the story. I
Without further ado ...................
















This last image is grainy. It is a scanned image out of a trade publication. I wish it were sharper.



There was so much left out on the presentation of the Elegant Lady. It was hard to choose what to post.
I count this project as the greatest honor I have ever had the privilege to be a part of. Warm feelings even now.

For all those who have been saying to yourself. " Where the hell is the Red Lion ?"

Well It will resume just as soon as I get over my fatigue from teacup.

Kevin