Cooking with Ike: Not cooking per se` but interesting none the less

Hi everyone.... While it isn't really cooking I wanted to post some pics of a project I (as well as others) have been working on. We recently had our kitchen floors refinished and sold our table we have had for 11-12 years so my sister in law Jan gave us the idea of using some old lumber from a machine shed we tore down at least 15 years ago we had saved in our barn.. So we did just that I found some old Ponderosa Pine (cue theme from Bonanza here) and had a person from Sandy's company that makes furniture in his spare time agree to make the table... He did a Fabulous Job!!
Here are some pics from beginning to end of the making of the table top!!

Here is the old wood before power washing

Same board after washing

Tabletop after cutting to size and planing

Now it's looking like a table - double biscuit and cleated together... HEAVY

BEAUTIFUL

Now comes the frame!! Sandy had seen an example of many frames on the web and I liked the pipe base... So off to Home Depot and Menards we go.. We proceeded to buy out all of the flanges, nipples and elbows they had and Friday night I got started.... It is kind of like putting together a jigsaw puzzle - you have to remember when you tighten one, you may loosen another so you had to think through the steps in the right order.. Well what do you think? Thanks to all that helped (even Ike that helped me assemble the chairs too!)