Distressing Tables with Dad

Hello,
I am Brent's daughter, Rachel. We both distressed about 27 tables for Jackson Gore at Okemo Mountain. I wanted to show everyone how distressing is done and that sometimes things are harder than people think. :}

This is one of the tables we distressed.

This is the top of the distressed table.
This is a table that is not distressed, do you see a difference?

You might be wondering , "how did they make those holes near that knot in the picture above?"
Well we used this tool to make that happen.

Before After

This is the edge of the distressed table. Notice how it is a flat edge instead of a straight edge.
Before the chisel work

After the chisel work

The table base would have these hammer marks from the owner hammering the wedge tighter as needed in the olden days. But we glued ours together so that the hammer marks were just for show.
While we were making these tables we realized that we didn't care if we threw our tools down on the surface of the tables, because it showed real "dings" that someone would make. Some of these "dings" were real, some were not accidental and where made like this (below)
These are the main tools that were used in the distressing part of the table. We also used hammers and other banging tools :}
So there you have it, this is basically how we distressed those tables. Some customers like distressed tables very simply, like the tables we did, but others like it very distressed like rolling plates around where the plates would be to leave a round indent. Distressing is hard work but a lot of creativity and fun. :) Thanks for reading!