Trestle done - nearly

[poolhound]

After spending quite a while making and cleaning a bunch of mortises in this dang white oak and tuning up and fitting the tenons the trestle base is now nearly completed. I just have the wedge motrises and wedges to do but as they are not quite as critical that should be easy by comparison.

Starting with razor sharp chisels and plane irons and keeping the worksharp at hand made life a little easier. My next project had better be in some nice soft pine!

[jussi]

Looks good. I love how you mirrored the grain on the legs. Is the top oak as well? Breadboard?

[BadeMillsap]

Really looking great! White Oak is hard to work but the results are worth it

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[poolhound]

Looks good. I love how you mirrored the grain on the legs. Is the top oak as well? Breadboard?

The top will be made from these two book matched live edge slabs. They are old black walnut and I bought them last year direct from a local mill. They have lots of "character" and I intend to butterfly them together still leaving some gaps between the boards. some of the cracks, voids and insect holes will be filled with inlaid turquoise. The insets in the legs are walnut as will be the wedges. LOML would like to try inlaying some copper but I have never tried that before and not sure where to start.

[poolhound]

Really looking great! White Oak is hard to work but the results are worth it

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Dang is it ever and when you mill it square those edges are really sharp. Working on the stretcher yesterday I managed to cut myself on the wood just moving it around.

[cwsmith]

This project is looking great and from your description, it is going to look really fantastic, I'm really looking forward to your finished table.

Just looking at the leg assemblies it must require very special precision to build those two pieces and keep them aligned and true so the table top fits precisely even and level.

Wish you were my neighbor so I could learn how you exercise such skill.

CWS

[atgcpaul]

That looks really nice. Looking forward to the final product.

[Bill in Buena Park]

Jon, great job, and that will be one beautiful table!

[poolhound]

This project is looking great and from your description, it is going to look really fantastic, I'm really looking forward to your finished table.

Just looking at the leg assemblies it must require very special precision to build those two pieces and keep them aligned and true so the table top fits precisely even and level.

Wish you were my neighbor so I could learn how you exercise such skill.

CWS

Thanks for the kind words. Not sure how much precision there will be but I have a hammer to work out any kinks :-)

And, you are welcome to the neighborhood any time you like...

[ArtworksIII]

You can see how solid your construction is... Whom ever gets that will be very proud...

[poolhound]

It will be me and I will be :-)