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Building a Harvest Style table. Recycled old growth fir. Thick top 2.5 inches. 6 feet long x 3 feet wide. Want to build the legs at least 6 inches square, and with ability to take apart and move if necessary. Thought: build two separate long sides complete with legs and rails (glued tenon joints) and join with two shorter end pieces, (non-permanent) to complete the table frame. Q: what kind of joinery besides visible bolts etc might work with this idea to make a strong but with ability to dismantle for moving?
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David, what I know as a harvest table has much more modest proportions in a Shaker style, but your piece sounds interesting. The design sounds exactly like a trestle table, with the axis switched. Trestle tables usually have one flat foot under one leg and a wedged through tenon, but it seems like you could adapt the same joinery to your design. Or keep the axis the same as in a trestle table--why do you want the long sides to be solid, and not the ends?
MM
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