Our Farm Table starts with the selection of the boards for the tabletop.  To begin with we just don't use any old boards.  We select the choice part of the building being, the floor and wall boards, time worn and colored through the activity of many years of busy farming life.   By purchasing entire floors of large barns, homes and factories, we are sure to have tops made often times from boards from the same tree, not to mention patina and wear of the same time and space.  These boards are glued together with great attention paid to keeping the board faces flush so no aged wood will have to be removed with some type of abrasive operation.

Our bread board ends are attached with a method employing a hidden elongated slot so the ever changing expansion and contraction of the top with the seasonal changes in humidity will not crack the boards.  Some reclaimed wood table makers, after sanding the life out of the wood with course grit belt sanders, secure the tops firmly in place by either screwing it in place from the bottom, nailing it from the top or both.  Wood breathes and moves and is not meant to be rigidly fastened without the occurrence of cracks.  We fasten our tops to our aprons with a system that allows the top to move with the seasons avoiding the problem of cracking.  We also finish the bottoms of our tables to protect the wood from an uneven absorption of humidity and henceforth controlling cupping of the top.  Our table aprons are also finished on the back, side and are adorned with a wonderful quirk bead.

Stephen's most popular Windsor hand turned leg design is drawn from many early styles of the delicate upsweep of the antique Windsor chair leg.  The legs are removable on the Farm Table as we find today's life styles lend themselves to easy mobility.  The 3/8" bolts are fastened to hard wood blocks that are notched into the table apron.  Stephen also hand turns other style legs.