Callahan Construction Conference Table

Crafted from rich black walnut, this table measures an impressive 55 inches wide by 10 feet long—making it the largest piece we’ve built to date. The wood was sourced from Pennsylvania and began as two massive live edge slabs. We carefully broke them down into six sections, milled each one, and then seamlessly joined them back together to create the final piece you see in the photos. This build was no small feat—challenging from start to finish—but the end result speaks for itself.

Rachel’s TV lift Cabinet

If you’re like Rachel and me, you probably think TVs are hideous eyesores that disrupt the harmony of a well-designed living space. That said, where else are you going to put one? To solve the dilemma of wanting to watch The Office before bed without staring at a giant black screen all day, we started designing beautiful cabinets that conceal the TV when it’s not in use. Rachel’s home posed an extra challenge: there wasn’t a natural spot for a TV—or even a cabinet to house one. So, she asked us to add wheels, allowing the cabinet to live in the hallway most of the time and roll into the living room for movie night. Of course, wheels can ruin the aesthetic of a nice piece of furniture, so we found a clever way to hide them. You’ll also notice the upper section of the cabinet includes a dedicated compartment for a soundbar. This design is all about utility and hidden features—and we think it’s pretty beautiful, too.

Jordan and Melissa’s Table

Made from black walnut, this table features a 24″ leaf that allows it to expand from a 54″ diameter to 78″ end to end. The design is clean and minimal, but don’t let that simplicity fool you—the base is one of the most complex elements we’ve ever built. The challenge came from the transition between the bottom and top sections, which required precise angle changes and a series of unique bevel cuts to create square faces on each segment. It’s tough to explain in writing, but just know it took many hours of design work—and a lot of math—to engineer a base that looks this simple.

Teresa’s Bookcase

This is a hickory bookcase that we built for a very strange and hard to fill cutout in the client’s living room. The space is now filled and the lower section is the new home of the client’s grandchildren’s toys and books.

Covenant House Auction Table

This black walnut/Maple table was made for Covenant House Alaska, donated to the auction of their annual fire and ice ball to raise money for their cause. Covenant House is a local organization in Anchorage Alaska that provides services that support homeless youth.

Aubrey’s Table

Just a simple black walnut table.

Ash with Zebrawood Expanding Table.

This table was built out of curiosity and as a technical proof of concept for an expanding table with a leaf that can be easily stowed under the table surface. The sliding mechanism is built with 4 heavy duty drawer slides. Prior to purchasing the wood for this table I imagined that combining a lighter colored wood with high detail dark wood would yield a beautiful result. Sure enough……

Wendy’s Conference Table

The largest table we’ve built so far. 10′ x 40″ maple hardwood with padouk inlays and outlays, supported with a steel frame pedestal style base. We love building large conference tables for local Alaskan business owners.

Hertha’s Table and Benches

This table and bench pairing is made primarily with 8/4 Ash lumber. The rail of the table is inlayed with black walnut, and the bases for the table and benches are made with 1.5″ square steel tube. The end customer for this table is a woman of faith and with that in mind I decided to honor her faith by shaping the legs of the table into an Ichthys (Jesus Fish as it’s more commonly known.

Alex’s Table

A classic walnut dining table with big round corners. This table is made with 3 layers of 3/4″ walnut, giving it a very “thick” look. The legs were cut with the help of my friend Greg and his 42-inch lathe. The 2 bowties positioned along the center seam serve to add character to the table surface and have no structural utility. I wasn’t able to capture any photos of this table in it’s new dining room, so you’ll have to disregard the messy shop in the background.

Stephanie’s Waterfall Bench

Made from hickory. This style of bench is called a waterfall bench because the grain of the benchtop flows like a waterfall into the legs of the bench. This bench is particularly cool not only because of the waterfall but also because it is built from 2 pieces of hickory lumber, you can’t see it, but the seam that joins the two boards together is hidden in the white strip that runs through the center of the bench. In all of my builds I spend a lot of time picking out lumber so that I can find boards that have commonality and linkages between their grain pattern and tones.

James and Grace’s Waterfall Benches and End Table

Made from White Oak. These three pieces integrate the waterfall effect with the grain flowing continuously from leg to leg through the bench top. We used a black dye to “black-out” the underside of each piece. This was intended to add some style and uniqueness to the generally bland aesthetic of white oak. Fortunately I was able to find a mix of bland lumber and a few pieces that have the marbling that you see in the center board of the bench in the 4th photo. Again taking advantage of patterns in the grain of the wood, I purposely sandwiched the marbled wood between the blander pieces in both benches, which I though made them look pretty cool.

Marie’s Table

This table is made with 4/4 black walnut with maple accents. I say maple accents rather than inlays because the maple isn’t really inlayed to the wood. This table is the product of an idea I had to create the illusion of a very thick table that is in reality less than an inch thick in most places. The rail of the table under the top panel of walnut is only 3 inches wide, which can only be seen if you crawl under the table. I like this style of table because it isn’t outrageously heavy, a lot of character can be added to the table by combining wood species, and I can make them at an affordable price point.

Lisa’s Table

This table is made with 8/4 Hickory with Sapele inlays. This is the most complicated table we have built to date. It’s not easily noticed in the images but the sapele side rails of this table are dovetailed to the hickory slab… It’s a 6-foot-long continuous dovetail joint, which may not mean much to people that don’t woodwork but just know that it was really difficult to combine the slab with accents. The result is a really cool detail that basically nobody notices. Oh well, this was a really hard build, and it turned out pretty stink’n cool

Nelson’s Table

This table is made with 8/4 Hickory with a few small Purple Heart inlays. Thank you to my friend Nelson for commissioning me to build his dining table, and also for giving me a wide birth to be creative with the build. The leg design is meant to represent the rising sun, but when combined with the table it ended up looking a lot like a tie-fighter to me, oh-well equally if not more so cool! I’ve never matched up the grain pattern of the boards for a table so well as this one. The long strip of white sap wood in the middle of the table hides a seam between two boards likely from two different trees. It’s like those two pieces of lumber were always meant to be joined together in this table. Anyway, this is a big heavy beautiful table and moving it around and flipping the slab during the build was very strenuous and resulted in a couple months on tendinitis in my elbows. I like how this one turned out almost as much as I like Nelson.

Tapia and Mark’s Table, Entryway, and Bench

This is the first table that I built, made of 5/4 black walnut. It sat in my home for many years until I wondered if it was good enough to sell. Sure enough it was, and its new owners liked it enough that they commissioned me to build a couple more items for them. I’m forever grateful to Tapia and Mark, their purchase of my table and the trust they extended to me to build them more custom furniture is the instigating force that inspired me to really explore the craft of woodworking and to start this business.