Trestle Dining Table with Pullout Leafs
Build this trestle dining table with pull out leafs for my niece out of alder. She had a picture which I used to design and build the table.
The table was designed based on a picture she had from a department store. I added the pull out leaf feature after seeing the article of Tommy MacDonald’s table. The difficult part was designing the pull out leafs for a trestle table – his table had four legs.
The wood for the table was alder with walnut inlays in the table top, apron, and trestle feet. I used Danish oil to achieve the medium walnut stain she wanted followed by numerous coats of semigloss polyurethane.
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Build this trestle dining table with pull out leafs for my niece out of alder. She had a picture which I used to design and build the table.
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She really wanted the diamond pattern in the table top. The only way I could determine the dimensions of the diamond and adjoining pieces was to draw a full scale pattern which I hung on the wall for reference.
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All of the joints were made using a Domino Joiner. I did make some joints so that the table could be disassembled for transport to her home - I did that by gluing the domino in place on one side and driving a screw through the domino on the other side.
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