Rustic Plank Top GalleyTrestle Table.   5′ X 33″  Mortise and tenon joinery,eight screws, and very little glue, Designed to come apart for portability with the aid of a rubber mallet.

Base– feet, uprights, and  shoulders of 1 1/8 inch red oak, stained with Miniwax “Natural” stain and Minwax Fast-Dry Poly. Feet and shoulders  are made from one piece, dado-ed, halved, then glued together  for the upright tenons — as described in this magazine, a few issues back.

Plank Top–white oak planks,  2 planks each side fastened with screws to cleats which fit into dadoed 1″ grooves onto the shoulders, makes a tight fit.  Top planks and Trestle keys of same white oak, stained with Varathane “Golden Pecan” with 4 coats Minwax Fast-Drying  Polyurethane with  light sanding  between  the four 4 coats, finished off with rubbed on Almond Oil.

Trestles first stained with  Miniwax “Provincial” stain, lightly sanded and over-stained with the “Golden Pecan”.  Trestles fit into 1/2 grooves, 1 inch long, cut in the uprights, with 1/4 ” grooves on all four sides of trestles. Makes a tight fit, even without the keys.

All wood from centuries-old trees felled by a tornado 18 years ago, planked out, and stored in a horse barn and was given to me which I planed out myself (with free access to more including walnut and cherry for  future projects!)

With no scroll saw available, the curves were cut as close as possible with a bandsaw, and filed out using an old half-round bastard file–took all summer.

Design is my own, something I remembered and similiar to knock-down furnishings seen from my participation in Rev. War Re-enactments here in the Midwest. Complements my kitchen cabinets of framed oak wainscotting doors, and my pantry . Benches are in process.

 

 

 

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