Mission Table

Here is a mission style table that I started some time ago. The table is made from Wormy Chestnut. The American chestnut tree was one of the most widely known trees in the US until and blight was brought in from imports and now there are only a few known trees left living. Old chestnut many times has holes in it where worms have burrowed through the wood. It actually makes the wood desireable. This was some wood a friend of mine gave me from trees that had been pulled from the KY River and then dried and sawed into lumber. This was basically the scrap that he had left from projects he had built so this was not the best quality but it was cool to be able to use it.

I have several projects that I have started and never finished. I am going back and trying to finish up some of these projects. I finished a small blanket chest and now the table. I love Stickley "mission or craftsman" furniture. I can remember the first time I saw a mission Prairie chair and settle(which is a long wooden couch with arms and back with cushions to sit on). I thought it was some of the coolest furniture. At the time I thought it was a new design someone had developed when it actually was a design that was close to 100 years old.