"Shawn" wrote in message
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Hey all,

We sold our 6ft pine retangular dining table, and have been shopping
around for new ones. The only one we REALLY like is a DINEC table.
It is about 7ft long and then extendes to around 10 or 11ft. We need
to seat 10 people comfortably, with the option to seat 12. The
problem with this table is that it will take 4 months to come in and
the cost is around $1200-1300. So, I have to ask myself, would it be
cheaper to build and have some of that $$$ go towards tools?

I haven't built anything that large yet so I was wondering what do you
think it would cost to build something just like the dintec and how
hard would it be?? I have a tablesaw, router/rtr table, random orbital
sander, jig saw. No planer, jointer, belt sander. I was thinking
about building it with ask or oak, or someother hardwood that we can
stain a chocolate/coca color. The table would be in the simple shaker
style, with a retangular top, straight apron, taperd legs, and two or
three extensions.

Any advice would be AWESOME!

This was similar to the decision my wife and I faced recently.
We moved into our brandnew home and kicked all our old furniture to the
curb.
We wanted a new *white* dining room set and had been searching in vain for
one, seems white furniture is not very stylish right now, go figure.
Leafing through one of them ladies magazines my wife found a picture of her
dream dining room table.
I am in the process of building it right now.
Am using some store bought parts and some stuff I will do myself.
It is a 8' french door with an apron and cottage style legs.
The windows in the door have some ferns etched into the surface and a large
piece of beveled glass will go over top of the whole thing.
I bought the door, bought the legs (I don't have a lathe, yet) and bought
some 1x6 red oak for the apron. The whole thing is assembled, (very solid
too) now I'm shopping for a sprayer.
So, in conclusion I would say to build it, you will learn some stuff along
the way and you'll get the table you really wanted.