Quarter Sawn Red Oak Mission Dining Room Table
Detailed Photographs
We have several large photos available of the mission dining table design, please click on the 'Images' tab at the top of this page to view them.
Guide to Dining Room Tables
For more details on our tables, please click here. This guide provides copious detail on our dining room tables, and how they fit into your home.
Mission Dining Room Table Details
Genuine Solid Hardwood: Our mission dining room tables are created from solid hardwood. We use only genuine hardwoods -- there is no pine, plywood filler, pressed wood, "select hardwoods" or veneers used in our mission tables.
Tabletops: Our mission dining room tables are created standard from 1.5" thick hardwood, but we can also increase the thickness of this tabletop. See below under 'Other Table Options' for more details.
Table Undercarriage: Our mission tables are created to be very strong and solid, and are designed to support a heavy tabletop. The legs and supports are created entirely from solid oak.
Hardware: We use high quality hardware in our mission dining room tables. The interior leaf mechanism is created from solid hard maple, and the metal gears are mechanized to ensure stability. None of our customers has ever reported a broken or damaged gear.
Traditional Craftsmanship: Harmony Cedar mission tables are individually handcrafted by Amish craftsmen with decades of experience. Creating a beautiful, durable tabletop requires this level of expertise.
Quarter Sawn Red Oak Characteristics
Quarter sawn red oak is cut against the grain to create a more varied appearance and texture.
Red Oak is a solid, sturdy wood that is uniform in texture and color. Its grain is relatively large, and takes on colored stain quite well. With age, its color will change take on minor amber tones. This is a minor change in color. Its species name is Quercus Rubra. Its Janka rating (hardness and resistance to scrapes, gouges and cuts) is 1260.
Choosing an Red Quarter Sawn Oak Finish
We offer a variety of stains and finishes for our red quarter sawn oak tables. Please click here for details on the available red quarter sawn oak finish options.
If you're unsure about the finish for your table, we encourage you to order wood samples. Color accuracy on our website cannot be assured due to a number of variables including lighting, the camera used, and the settings on your computer monitor.
Our 100% Quality Guarantee
Each dining room table is created by hand by Amish master craftsmen and is carefully inspected individually prior to shipping to assure its quality.
To assure this quality, we offer a full money back guarantee and a full one year warranty against defects on our dining room tables.
Please click here for more details on our 100% quality guarantee.
Comments From Our Customers
We encourage you to view the comment cards and emails sent in by our customers. There are well over one hundred posted on our website.
Shipping and Packaging
Our mission dining room tables take 4-6 weeks to create, and 1-3 weeks for delivery.
9 times out of 10, our dining tables are completed and delivered within this timeframe. However, true craftsmanship cannot be rushed -- sometimes a piece just takes a bit longer. Please let us know if there is an important holiday or event we should be aware of when you place your order, and we will do our best to get it there on time.
We ship all of our dining tables via 'inside the home delivery and setup'. Your new table will be created to your specifications by a master craftsman, then delivered and set-up inside your dining room by professional furniture movers.
We also offer Curbside Delivery (you take the packaged table off of the back of the truck and unload it yourself), and Curbside Delivery with liftgate (same as the previous, except that the table is lowered to the ground for you). These are more affordable options, but they are also more complicated and difficult. We recommend this as an option for some of our smaller tables, but do not recommend this option for any table larger than around 60" in length. Our tables are very large and very heavy.
Please click here for more details on our shipping procedures.
Ordering Information
Ordering: You may order directly online through our secure server, or call us at 1-888-959-8899 and order with a 50% deposit. The remainder will be billed prior to delivery.
We recommend that you contact us to discuss your table before placing an order.
Tabletop Thickness
Our tabletops are created from 1.5" thick solid hardwood as our standard, but we can also create thicker tabletops. Changing the tabletop thickness affects the price of the table, table leaves and shipping costs.
1.25" thick tabletop: 0.75" or 1" wood is commonly used on tabletops. A tabletop created from 1.25" hardwood is quite a solid piece of furniture.
1.5" thick tabletop: 1.5" hardwood is thicker than the wood used for most tabletops, and it is quite solid. This is the standard for our mission dining room tables.
1.75" thick and 2" thick tabletop: A mission dining room table created from 1.75" or 2" thick hardwood is very solid, very substantial and very heavy.
Measured Thickness of a Completed Tabletop: Please note that in the woodworking process, some of this thickness is sanded and planed away in order to create a flat tabletop surface. This varies depending on the individual piece of wood, but is generally around .125" to .25". This difference between the starting material and the finished product is a consequence of working with natural products, as each piece of wood is unique. This variation in planing and sanding depth will be present on any handmade table.
Table Sizes and Leaves
We offer several standard mission table sizes, but we can create a table to nearly any size or dimension. The table sizes listed here are not exhaustive.
Our mission dining room tables can all house a number of leaves, expanding the size of the tabletop when friends or family arrive.
Each family is unique, and table leaves reflect that difference. 12" leaves are the most common size, and have the advantage of being easier to store and carry around. But 18" leaves make seating your extended friends and family a bit easier, as most chairs are also 18" wide. Each 18" leaf allows two more people to sit at the dining table.
We strongly recommend ordering any necessary leaves along with your table -- leaves ordered at a later date may not match the wood grain, or fit inside the table properly.
Please see our Guide to Dining Room Tables for more details on table leaves and leaf storage.
Other Table Options
Drop Legs: Drop Legs allow you to extend your table beyond 3 leaves, adding a bit of support to the ends of the table. We recommend drop legs on all mission tables with 4 or more leaves. Drop legs fold up inside the table when not in use, and are hidden from view. Please click here for a photo.
Table Edge: Our table edges have three different edges. Click here for photos of these three options: Standard, Half Bevel and Full Bevel.
Tabletop: Our mission dining table can be created with one of several tabletop styles. There are two visual guides you can use to assist your selection. The first is the Tabletop Options Chart. The second is photos of the actual tables themselves, please click on the name below for a photo of the tabletop. Your choices for a mission style table: standard rectangular, curved tabletop, 90 degree corner 1" cut (no photo available), 90 degree corner 6" cut, rounded corner 1" radius and rounded corner 12" radius.
Table Fluting: Fluting is a more complicated wood design that adds detail to the table, the fluting is added to the skirt (the area just underneath the tabletop). Please click here for a photo of fluting on a pedestal dining table. This fluting is referred to as 'single wood fluting' and can be done on any table. Single wood fluting means that the entire table, including the fluting details, are all composed of the same hardwood and are finshed with the same color of stain.
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