Sometime in the later part of 2019 I was given the opportunity to build a large table with some slabs of Douglas Fir that had been milled from some beams that had been laying in a basement of a building since the late 1890s. These are the slabs on the day I brought them into me shop in Ely:
It was a very simple project only made difficult by the fact that it was very large. Gluing up the top was a fun project:
![Gluing slabs for table top Gluing slabs of Douglas Fir for custom table by John Huisman](https://3fb77c.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Gluing-slabs-for-table-top-scaled.jpg)
Here are some finished pictures:
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