Building A Nakashima Inspired Dining Table in Texas Walnut (Part 2) 

Your craftsmanship is way above top shelf, but your best creation was the precious little girl helping Dad. Absolutely priceless! Thanks for sharing Mr Rawls

Beautiful table, Andy. I admire your attention to detail, craftsmanship, and patience. Look forward to the next project!

Thanks for making this video Andy. I am working on a Nakashima build right now and COMPLETELY forgot about buttons when designing the mounting system to the top. Your solution is much more elegant and easier to implement than the convoluted mounting base plates recessed into the bottom that I came up with XD. Very nice work here!

It was awesome to see your daughter helping. My father built a table back in 80' and never let me help. SO, 40YRS later, I'm completely self taught.

Probably one of the nicest tables I ever saw, absolutely incredible !! A lot of skill to build that

My daughter loves helping me to. Jt really is the best when she gets really into it and pays attention and wants to learn. It reminds me of me and my daughter awesome video

Getting your kids involved in your work is so important! It transfers the craft of workmanship and the skills they need to grow as young people from generation to generation! Thanks so much for sharing this awesome video to inspire passing down the traditions of woodworking!!! Tks JDK

Love your work and find your comments very beneficial. Very much like most Nakashima style designers. Also appreciate you letting your daughters help! Great job!

I appreciate that you've included challenges with the glue up and shared details about all the work that goes into sanding/finishing. Very motivating after having my own difficulties with a current project

That bandsaw is a work of art

I love to see children help their dad with work

I'm not sure what's better, your craftsmanship or your narration... both are top notch!

Firstly, that is one fine looking table. Secondly, your daughter is beautiful. And lastly..... Thank You 💙

Andy, I really appreciate watching your hand skills at work. It just goes to prove that a combination of machine and handtools make for the optimal approach. Thanks for sharing your processes with us.

How beautiful! You are a true Renaissance woodworker. I'm so overwhelmed with your work. I first saw the table you made for Bunker Branding. And Mark made mention of you as well. So glad I found your channel. You have a beautiful family, too. Thank you for sharing the woodworking trade via you tube. God Bless ❣️

I've been watching your content for a long time, really like the narration you have in the background! Beautiful work man, cheers!

Let me join all of the others that are saying how terrific that table is!! I love the way you combine antique machinery and tools with the modern machinery!!

It’s absolutely stunning. Well done sir.

Great work! But something interesting I noticed, when your daughter asked before you turned on the machine if it's going to be loud. She clearly already instinctively cares about safety in the shop. That's so awesome, man.

That is a beautiful table, and that wood grain is amazing. Here in New Zealand we have beautiful hardwoods too, Rimu, Totara as just 2. I have a natural table made out of the same ... nothing looks or feels better than a natural hard wood table.. Beautiful job...

A beautiful table. The elegant simplicity of the base is a great complement to the gorgeous figure of the top.

Beautiful work Andy.

Love the "table buttons" idea. Makes a ton of sense when you've got a tool like the Domino, too.

Beautiful table. Like the way you attach the top. Love the furniture build videos. Stay safe and God bless.

Incredible work Andy!

Love it. I enjoy watching your builds. I'm in the process of setting up my shop. I learn so much from watching everyone build stuff. I have built a few things over the years but want to get more into it. I have a new place with a garage and that will be my shop. I can't wait. Just waiting on warmer weather to get the garage sorted.... Stay safe and keep up the good work.

Absolutely stunning. So minimal and subtle.

Outstanding table and over the top craftsmanship! Really appreciate you showing the detail that goes into the jointery. Very well crafted! Something for me to shoot for in my work. Thanks for your inspiration!

Beautiful table. Walnut is so nice to work with. Great videos. I've always wanted to try a Nakashima design piece. Just need a client with enough $$$. Thanks Andy.... keep yourself and your little helper safe.

Great looking table and the prettiest helper in the business! Great job. Thanks Andy.

Great design, beautiful table and beautiful wood. It all worked out well.

Absolutely phenomenal

absolutely high professional work

The table is beautiful and the Craftsmanship equal to it.....Great Job Andy! Thanks for the vid’s.

Love your videos, thanks for sharing. The table top can be thought of as a beam, in your case a beam simply supported at two points. Look up Bessel points and Airy points on Wikipedia, food for thought on where to put the supports. Thanks again for sharing, you're one of my favorite subs. Be well...

Absolutely stunning and awesome craftsmanship great job Andy stay safe and take care my friend god bless

Table turned out great! Would like to see a customer reaction if that’s possible. Keep up the good work!

Beautiful table there Andy, sleek looking but sturdy. Great job Sir

I have solved several minor leveling problems by gluing pieces of leather from old belts on the legs. They seem to find their own level. Beautiful workmanship as always.

It looks amazing! Thank you for the video!

love your work! I use your level of craftsmanship to challenge meyself and strive to improve...thanks

Looks great. The design of that table is incredible

Beautiful work Sir!

The table look very nice

A beautiful table top, nice joinery.Thanks for sharing.

that miniscule curve makes the table look so much for dynamic compared to a blocky straight cut

Awesome build, I really like how you incorporate new technology along with hand tool work.

Absolutely beautiful work again andy you should be very proud of the quality you put out 😀

What an amazing build!. Definitely one of the coolest tables I've seen. Well done, Andy!

Nice work Andy love your choice of grain match on the top !

Awesome piece. Looks great.

Awsome table love the look

Beautiful finished product. Well done.

Doooood. That table is amazing. Well done sir.

Great looking piece...

Nice work! I think you apologize to much for the mishaps. No need to, since you fix it all and the end result is awsome. I do like all the guessing you do when you narrate. That, for me, is proof that your plan came together finaly first during the actual work. And that is what separates a craftsman from an engineer. When it doesn't fit, you'll make it fit. No need to figure out whats wrong, except for the dull blades you've got to fix before next project. ;)

What a beautiful table, I sure hope no one stands on that table. If they do, they really don't appreciate the workmanship you have done.

Beautiful job.

Beautiful job!

beautiful piece.

For Jig clamping you should try the masking tape trick from crimson guitar it works so well for that application

Beautiful table. Great job on design and build.

That is a beautiful table, sir. 👍 Well done

in another video i would really like to see the finish work, maybe put some tips or tools that you have found helpful in the video? keep up the great content!

Really enjoyed this build, Andy! Table turned out great!

ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS. 👍👍👍👍👍. Great job mate. I hope you signed it.

Great job Andy looks lovely

How beautiful! You are a true

What a sweet piece for the shop.

Beautiful work, I just finished up two night stands out of QS WO, and man it feels like 50% of the project is sanding. PS: my daughter had that same dress at your daughter's age :)

Very pretty table. I would love to have the base built in metal, if it was my table. There is no way in the world that you can convince me that this will be a stable base in the long run, in wood.

Loved this series ! Many thanks and great job !

Beautiful table, Andy! Billy

Very interesting design, I’m just finishing a table with a lot of similar themes

Great job Andy.

Sure looks nice

Absolutely stunning! Thanks for sharing

Looks great

Nice piece.

Very nice job, you may want to check on the motor bracket for your drill press, it looks loose.

You’re a wizard 😵👌

Beautiful master work.

That shotgun you restored will come in handy in about12-13 years....

I love that you are including your daughter. But, please make sure to put her hair in a pony tail near the drill press. I don't want to tell you about what happened to my old shop foreman one day.

You should create a little level area in the shop with some levelling concrete

new subscriber; love it. Well done

Just found you and so glad I did. I’m an aspiring hobbyists and really enjoy good content with exceptional narration, which you supply both.

Nice marking pencil. Also, noticed the surf board. Have you hit up BSR surf ranch yet?? I love that place.

Where can I pickup one of those cool pencils you were marking those dovetail stretchers with? Jk. Signs of a down to earth woodworker.

Very, very nice.

Amazing work. Thanks for the videos.

Maaaan this is beautyfull You need to film clients reaction if they agree. I wish you could teach me some woodworking. I work with wood about 2 years and almost everything i know i learn all by myself. Keep posting videos every your video is amazing. :)

And that's why I have a man crush on you Andy. Legend. You've done it again. 👌

I keep thinking about this table build. It is very intriguing to me. I am especially fascinated with the long stretchers that connect to the top arms that support the table top and help keep it flat. You start on these about the 12 minute mark in the video. I am curious about the way that table stays flat. In the end, the top looks perfectly flat, which is amazing to me for such a long table. You mentioned that you cut them with a slight bow, but it must be very slight as I keep looking for it but don't see the bow. Anyway, those long stretchers seem like they should be thicker to me. How did you know they were thick enough?? I suspect that the leg support pieces being at an angle keeps them in tension if they try to sag but that whole system of stretchers and base over that length staying flat is amazing. Does you CAD software tell you the thickness? Do you have to change the thickness for oak or cherry? The tables I build are never that big and my tables look heavy while yours does not look bulky. Thank you for sharing this amazing build!

If you use a marking knife to score your lines there is less chance of a blowout like you got with the Dado and the router on the dovetails.

Gorgeous table. The design is misleading. It looks so simple, but like you said, that joinery has to be done right or else it'll all fall apart. Wonderful job!

You mentioned worries about getting to sit level. How did that turn out? I'm considering adding recessed adjustable feet on mine to avoid issues with that. It's not ideal of course since it would be nice if the whole thing at least appeared to be sitting on the ground, but better than a wobbly table.

Absolutley beautiful Andy, very nice. Just a thought, couldn't you use adjustable feet for leveling? Anyway, love the build, cant wait to see what you build for the camper.

Very pretty.

I know if you built it, sold it then it's plenty ridgid enough and built to last but the middle looks so unsupported. If you were to build this again, would you add a 3rd leg in the middle?