Joinery all cut and ready for assembly and final shaping
Table top boards all milled to 1 1/4
Top cut to size and the stretcher assembly is all assembled.
All finished! Many coats of Sutherland and Wells applied by hand and rubbed out.
Ebony wedged through tenons pull the legs tight to the cross trestle.
Closer shot of the underside. The top of the legs have a saddle cut in them that slips under a block that is dovetailed between the pairs of stretchers. A nice Torx head bold pins this joint from the inside to keep the top assembly from lifting off of the legs when you move the table.
Nothing like defacing a brand new piece of furniture by scratching your name into it!
One thing that I learned on this project aside from the fact that big tables are really heavy, is that they are also hard to photograph well. I really needed to have a 12' roll of back drop paper because the table is wanting to run off of the 9' roll when you try to capture the whole thing.
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