Thank you for the kudos all. And thank you for the helping points as well.
Finally getting around to using the tools that I have accumulated over all
these years.

Greg asked
> Is that bottom shelf a single, super-wide walnut board, or some sort of
bookmatched glue-up?

The original two boards for this build were about 8 foot long or so...maybe
10 I can't recall but were between 10 and 13 inches wide depending upon
where measured. The boards were definitely cut from the same tree and I
believe they were consecutive cuts. Much of the wood was used for two
nightstand tops and a lower shelf given to her for her birthday earlier in
the year. Those were not posted but were galoot builds as well.

The remaining pieces of this walnut are in this hall table and two highly
figured sections of somewhere between 24-30 inches long. The short pieces
will be used for a guitar back that I will eventually (read likely "never"
get around to) build.

The lower shelf on the hall table comprises the two large sap wood sections
bookmatched to one another. I was hoping that it would complement the
maple...and if I didn't include it I would have needed to add a third piece
to get the width. To clarify a bit more one half of the top and one half of
the bottom shelf were ripped from the same 48 in length and glued to the
same arrangement from another like board.