Shaker Pedestal Table

At one point I was on a bit of a pedestal table run. I made two out of cherry. I felt that the second one was a little better than the first, so what could I do but give it one more try?
 
I wanted this one to be different. I asked myself, "Using the same form, what can I do by just varying the wood species used?" I decided to try creating the pedestal from black walnut with a maple core. A square core would have probably been easier, but there are three legs on the table, not four. I made the maple core have a cross-section of an equilateral triangle.
 
I glued three pieces of black walnut to the outside of the maple core. 

 
I removed the triangle's vertices on my bandsaw to get a piece with a roughly hexagonal cross-section. This is the piece that I started with on the lathe.
 

 
I was concerned that the three peaks where the core appears would not end up at the same location along the length of the pedestal. Then I realized that as long as I mount the rough piece on the lathe so that the axis of rotation goes through the center of the triangle, it should work out. As I worked on the pedestal, it was very satisfying to see the lighter wood begin to appear and to see that things lined up as I had hoped.

 
I made the legs from maple. I re-sawed the pieces and glued black walnut veneer in the center before cutting the legs to shape.

 
I installed the legs at the vertices of the triangular core of the pedestal.
 
The table top is also black walnut and maple with the addition of some bloodwood.

This was posted elsewhere Oct 3, 2013.