Pedestal Table Base Design Question
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I am building a round pedestal table and have a design concern. I am wondering if there is a rule-of-thumb that correlates the table top diameter to the diameter of the feet of the base. I am concerned with the balance/stability of the table. The dimensions in my design currently are: top is 6.5 feet in diameter; pedestal feet flare out to 4.0 feet in diameter. I am flexible in my base design so moving the pedestal feet out is fine, but i was allowing for leg room as the end users are all over 6.0 ft tall and value the space. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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I can't comment on a
I can't comment on a rule-of-thumb but I can mention a previous job I built.
The design was perfect (?) but I still went the route of an initial mock-up made out of 1" insulation board. Real cheap at a big box and easy to cut and assemble with hot melt glue.Whoa! The table seemed tippy so I changed the design.
Then I made a prototype with poplar, using quick-and-dirty joinery. It was still tippy with the new design so I made further design changes - and tested them.
Suggestion: Rules-of-thumb are great but don't build a whole project out of high grade materials and labor w/o first testing in the real world.
If I understand the description correctly, the four legs (with a diagonal of 48") will describe a square about 34" on a side (square of hypoteneuse = sum of squares of the sides). At the extreme (midpoint between a pair of legs) the edge of the tabletop will be 42" from the center of the table, and the midpoint of the line connecting those two legs will be 17" from the center of the table, an overhang of 25". Seems somewhere I read a recommendation that the maximum overhang of a round tabletop on a round base be at most 10", with a maximum of 6" more desirable?
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