Walnut Conference Table with Maple Butterflys

Gary McNabb is a craftsman extraordinaire, and his son is following in his footsteps. Gary sent me an email recently entitled "Proud Dad" with these pictures attached. Gary had cut two big Walnut slabs on his Big Mill Basic, and his son was commissioned by the Dean of a local college to build a conference table for the school. Gary's son used these two big walnut slabs in his project for the college.

He has a unique way of joining the two bookmatched walnut slabs. If you look closely, you can see the grain of the walnut is laser etched into the maple to match the walnut grain pattern. Here is the finished project: