Project Information
I made this table for a friend. The main wood is sapele, the hinge straps are hickory. The only metal in the table are the hinge pins. All the tenons, angle braces are pinned with wedged dowels. The hickory hinge straps are attached to the top with wedged dowels. The center (of the table top) dowel(s) has two dowels per hinge strap - these dowels are hard pinned - that is the hole in the table top is equal to the hole in the hinge strap. The two outside dowels (top & bottom of the table top) allow for table top expansion. The 'outside' holes in the hinge straps are elongated in direction with the width of the table top - with an extra wide wedges to hold the strap tight to the top. I used brass balls, which I hammered, as weights to hold the blue prints down - on the back edge of the top I drilled three holes on each side - the brass weights can be moved to the various holes as needed via carved down deer antler pins. Thanks for Looking.