Beside my study in industrial product design, I also follow night school for carpentry in massif wood furniture. As project I design my own dinning table for 4 persons, first on paper, then in CAD and then the making process began. I chose for second class oak wood, in my opinion the character of the wood comes forth much better than in first class oak wood. The joints will be made in walnut so that they are more emphasised. I specifically chose these two kinds of wood since they are both european, I do not like to use imported wood from rain forests. I like to keep it down to the original wood used by my grandfather who was also a carpenter and my example.

Starting from 5 beams of 25 by 5 cm and 3 m long, I cut them into their rough dimensions then they were planed and brought to the desired 4 cm thickness.

To make the table top the beams, each 1m70, were routed with this ribble so that the contact area for the glue is doubled in size. 

With the table router with which I made the ribbles in the beams, I also chamfered the bottom side of the table top at an angle of 60°. This gives the impression of a thinner table top eventhough the actual thickness is still 4cm, it makes it more elegant.

The next phase in the process was making the legs, 4 identical V-shaped legs still in their rough form. 
Instead of using the dovetail joint and a lose pin joint as seen in the CAD rendering, I went for a walnut pin that joins the 2 beams and will connect to the center beam. In the next picture you see the setup to glue the legs together.