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Here is a tea-party trestle table that my father-in-law and I made with some of the wood that we had custom sawed and kiln dried from lumber off of my Dad's land in Maine. Suffice to say, I really lucked out in the Dad and father-in-law department.
Most of the credit for this table belongs to my FIL, who designed this piece and did the lions share of the build. He's the handsome gent posing in front of the table for scale.
It's the perfect size for tea parties, and when an assembly is gluing up in my workshop, I'm not ashamed in the least to share a cup of the queens finest with my 3 year old daughter. She really loves the table, uses it everyday for play and for snack time. It actually served as the toddlers table at my family's Thanksgiving this year.
The lumber is 100% quarter-sawn hard maple. Not sure it's really sensible to build a table out of quarter-sawn maple structurally, but it was fun to do, and I have gazillion bdft of it. All that vertical grain on top makes me smile and think of the lumbering project every time I see it. The only place I worry about it is the central stretcher, which is probably a bit too skinny where the oval is cut out in the center. If it fails, I guess I'll just have to cut it out and build another one. The finish is wipe-on poly.
Here is a link to the project where my Dad and I had 2100 bdft of lumber cut from trees on his land and had it custom dried. It was as much fun as I've ever had. If you have some decent trees and are inclined to make sawdust, I highly recommend you give it a try.
http://lumberjocks.com/topics/43856
Thanks for looking!
Most of the credit for this table belongs to my FIL, who designed this piece and did the lions share of the build. He's the handsome gent posing in front of the table for scale.
It's the perfect size for tea parties, and when an assembly is gluing up in my workshop, I'm not ashamed in the least to share a cup of the queens finest with my 3 year old daughter. She really loves the table, uses it everyday for play and for snack time. It actually served as the toddlers table at my family's Thanksgiving this year.
The lumber is 100% quarter-sawn hard maple. Not sure it's really sensible to build a table out of quarter-sawn maple structurally, but it was fun to do, and I have gazillion bdft of it. All that vertical grain on top makes me smile and think of the lumbering project every time I see it. The only place I worry about it is the central stretcher, which is probably a bit too skinny where the oval is cut out in the center. If it fails, I guess I'll just have to cut it out and build another one. The finish is wipe-on poly.
Here is a link to the project where my Dad and I had 2100 bdft of lumber cut from trees on his land and had it custom dried. It was as much fun as I've ever had. If you have some decent trees and are inclined to make sawdust, I highly recommend you give it a try.
http://lumberjocks.com/topics/43856
Thanks for looking!