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I’m going to be building a formal dining set table, chairs, china cabinet. I’d like to find some basic plans from which I can begin my specific design. More than anything else, I need basic construction details on what works. For example, the table I plan to build, will be 6 feet long with 2 additional 18 inch leaves. Wood or metal sliding extensions will be used to make room for leaves, but, what kind of leg construction works best?
I’ve got plenty of chair plans to look at, but plans for china cabinets have been hard to find.
Thanks!
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Not sure where to get plans, but I just saw a local retailer advertise a dining room table that seats 8, 2 per side. Apparently a sqare shape is more conducive to conversation. What a concept!
*Dale,A couple of suggestions on table design and construction that I found very helpful:- Practical Design; Solutions and Strategies from Taunton press has a section on tables that is pretty rich. One article in particular describes how to size a dining table for both the diners and for the room size. - Measured Shop Drawings for American Furniture by Moser has some excellent detail drawings on various table styles and joinery techniques, including some extension tables.- Encyclopedia of Furniture Making by Joyce has sections on leg design and approaches for extending tables.Not sure if a sideboard is in your project, but Woodwork Magazine has a nice Arts and Crafts style sideboard plan profiled in its Feb 02 issue.
*Good evening,I need to find a source for plans or engineering design principles for large expandable tables.Actually I am looking for a set of undercarriage plans for a 60" circular wood table that allows for expansion into a long table capable of serving 12 to 16 people depending on number of leaves andhow far your can expand it. I want to use the design in which the undercarriage appears as a single pedestal when in the circular form with the pedestal splitting when elongated. Just to add to the difficulty I also want to utilize the old tradition of being able to tip the table top up on edge to roll the table through doors.Sounds crazy? There is a smaller version of this table in my parent's home. I am pulling detailed dimensions off of this ancient unit, but I am concerned about "expanding the dimensions for my larger table top. As the emphasis on undercarriage and the statement "my larger table top" may suggest, I already have the solid oak, 60" table top. It belonged to my wife's great grandparents. It has a massive engraved skirt that adds to its weight as well as beauty. Sadly, in the "modern" 50's her parents tore the solid oak undercarriage from under the table and disposed of it ("with its ugly dragon feet"). I doubt I will bring back the dragon feet, but I at least want to honor the table top and our farming background by mounting it on a solid carriage. Based on my wife's memory and the outlines of the undercarriage left on the underside of the table top, I believe the undercarriage I have described was probably the approach used.The mass of the top is also one reason I want to look at other plans and design concepts than those I might pull from my mother's table. Either my mother's many years of making bread on her table or a design weakness makes her table creak a bit wheneverything is not completely locked into place and all the wheels leveled. So, there may be room for design improvements.If I have spilled too much extraneous detail, I apologize. My mother died last July and my father had preceded her by eleven years;so, I guess her table also means a good deal to me. I honor that generation that knew both how to harness and use a horse and today's modern farming.Thank you in advance,Cal [email protected]
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