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I’m not so sure about the importance of the stretcher, Matt. We made a coffee table in Paul’s class that is a scaled down version of the trestle dining table (in fact, I think of the dining table as a scaled up coffee table :-). The dovetailed apron is quite rigid and I’d expect it would win out over the trestle, unless the trestle is really out of whack. You could be right, though.
I had the same question as you- Is it on a level floor? How thick of a shim is needed at the floor to keep it from wobbling? If it isn’t very much, could you just scribe the feet? That will settle the rocking. Then you’d need to address the apron with a plane to stop the top from rocking.
Plan B: Make your turn buttons, attach the top, and then see what things look like for the whole assembly. Attaching the top could change things. Not sure I’d want to scribe the feet without the top on.