Wyatt Walkem Design

Some of my favourite live moments from the construction process of the Big Philly dining table!

Thanks for helping with the heavy sanding equipment! 💪

What an incredible experience, I introduce you to the “Big Philly 2026” 54”W x 96”L x 30”H

Not everyday you get an opportunity to make a once in a lifetime piece, a piece to stand tall in the portfolio of one’s work.
When I met & David July 2025 at the show I had no idea something this amazing would come from that encounter.
They were renovating for their dream home in Philadelphia and wanted one of my pieces to be the front runner. To be able to share great laughs and stories around with friends and family while enjoying a meal. A special dining table

One of the hardest parts of any job is finding the materials. When I found half of a black walnut log it was too perfect to pass up on. It was between 43-36” wide and 11’ feet long it was a beautiful beast of a tree with such a range of colours from soft-dark browns to reddish orange. Thank you for always having my back to help make my projects a reality.
Thank you to for helping me sand these board’s with your fantastic machine!

Over the winter hours of learning, patience, and hard work went into this piece to have it ready for a spring delivery.
I got to thank everyone who helped me move these board’s around as I can safely say they were incredibly heavy to try and move by myself!! I couldn’t have finished this without your contributions.

Dining tables are still one of my most favourite things to create. They command so much presence in a room showing off there form and visual appeal of the grain. So massive but with no room to hide errors, the challenge they offer makes the finished results even better!

What an incredible experience, I introduce you to the “Big Philly 2026” 54”W x 96”L x 30”H

Not everyday you get an opportunity to make a once in a lifetime piece, a piece to stand tall in the portfolio of one’s work.
When I met & David July 2025 at the show I had no idea something this amazing would come from that encounter.
They were renovating for their dream home in Philadelphia and wanted one of my pieces to be the front runner. To be able to share great laughs and stories around with friends and family while enjoying a meal. A special dining table

One of the hardest parts of any job is finding the materials. When I found half of a black walnut log it was too perfect to pass up on. It was between 43-36” wide and 11’ feet long it was a beautiful beast of a tree with such a range of colours from soft-dark browns to reddish orange. Thank you for always having my back to help make my projects a reality.

Over the winter hours of learning, patience, and hard work went into this piece to have it ready for a spring delivery.
I got to thank everyone who helped me move these board’s around as I can safely say they were incredibly heavy to try and move by myself!! I couldn’t have finished this without your contributions.

Dining tables are still one of my most favourite things to create. They command so much presence in a room showing off there form and visual appeal of the grain. So massive but with no room to hide errors, the challenge they offer makes the finished results even better!

Lights, camera, demo!
Another great demo in the books for the kawartha woodturner’s guild in Peterborough. The topic was on “Taming the skew” with the final project being a spindle replication.
Can’t wait for the next demo, with hopefully less snow to drive home through!
Dm me for demonstration or lesson inquiries.

I’m feeling really good after finishing this large winged bowl today. It started out as a rough turned piece from another woodturner from 2004 that I acquired in 2023. I believe the wood is Elm or something odd. Finished the wings to around 1/4 thick with a nice ogee detail in the middle which really pops with the live edge contrast.
Stay tuned to see it once it’s oiled and polished.

I hope the little video series’s works out well. This isn’t a tutorial in anyway it’s just a video of me working through a problem and sharing my experiences while replacing the brake on my SawStop table saw. This incident happened a few months back while working on a little project. As you can hear from my video description it seemed like a random cause that tripped up the brake system.
After the video I did reach out to and after talking on the phone with a tech I mailed out the broken brake to have it analyzed at the factory. The breaks actually record some data to show if it was a machine error or a user error basically what caused it to trip. Pretty cool bit of tech, and the staff were super helpful and easy to talk with.
Again when problems like this arise it’s definitely frustrating and a drag to deal with. But for that one time the system did save one of my fingers I will support this technology all day everyday for that reason. Worth every dollar.
Hope you found something useful from these video! Drop me a line if you have any thoughts or comments I’m always happy to talk and learn.