8 ft Walnut Entry Hall Table

This was my first big furniture build: an 8 ft walnut entry hall table built to fit an empty wall. The top uses birdseye maple inlays, black epoxy resin lines, and a flattened resin surface that reveals the pattern underneath.

The drawer fronts were their own puzzle. The front of the table started as one long walnut piece, and the four cutouts were saved, rebuilt, and returned to their original spots so the grain keeps flowing across the whole face.

Design and Inlay Prep

The patterned top started as a layout problem. The triangles were cut with a table-saw jig, while the curved and non-triangle pieces were shaped by hand before everything was glued to a plywood backer with gaps left for black epoxy.

Resin and Reveal

After the inlays were locked down, the top was flooded with resin. A router slab-flattening jig milled the surface back down and revealed the walnut, birdseye maple, and black epoxy lines.

Case and Drawer Fronts

The front was made from one long piece of walnut. Four drawer openings were cut out, then those cutouts were rebuilt as drawer fronts with black epoxy borders so each front could return to its original position.

Installed Result

The finished table filled the empty entry wall and kept the grain flowing across all four drawers. The top became the visual signature, but the drawer-front rebuild is the detail that made the whole face feel continuous.

For a first big build, this one had a lot going on: a long table body, a patterned resin top, hand-shaped inlay pieces, and drawers that had to disappear back into the original walnut grain. The finished piece looks polished, but the build was really about solving each layer one at a time.