The whole family (well, not quite...)
Yew with tung oil and wax finish; this one is starring in the tutorial on http://www.cs75.de/lapjoint
Yew and tung oil again.
Lacewood with tung oil and wax finish.
Walnut and maple.
Flame maple and padauk.
Zebrano with tung oil finish.
Zebrano detail.
Matched pair; top is ziricote, bottom is flame maple.
One of my first attempts; beech with contrasting walnut veneer.
Reclaimed oak (from my great-grandfathers table which was in a too bad shape to be refurbished.)
Maple and padauk.
Multi-piece glue-up from four pieces of flame walnut and two pieces of beech.
Rosewood with clear lacquer.
Cherry with copper weights.
Spalted, wormy bubinga pommelé with sapwood. Clear lacquer finish. Terribly overexposed ;-)
Spalted bubinga pommelé detail. The most beautiful piece of wood I've ever used.
Rosewood. Made by William Watts.
Canarywood. Made by William Watts.
Cherry with copper weights
Flame maple with wavy veneer accent
Pear
Rosewood
Spalted beech
Spalted, wormy bubinga pommelé
Spalted, wormy bubinga pommelé. Made from the same piece of wood, but a couple of years apart. Top is finished with tung oil, bottom with clear lacquer.
Spalted, wormy bubinga pommelé, elbow detail.
Ash with tung oil finish.
Reclaimed quarter-sawn oak. Nice chatoyant rayfleck. Used to be a sawhorse in its former life.