Trestle Table – Episode 7
Posted 10 June 2015
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To complete the end frames, Paul cuts the mortices in the central column which will receive the stretcher tenon. Then we are ready to glue up the end frame. Paul uses optional drawbore pins in his. With the end frames completed, he assembles the base frame to mark the shoulders accurately on the stretcher and cuts the turnbutton mortices.
Awesome
Thank you for the knowledge you are sharing, growing is so exiting.
Cyrille
Fantastic project,is there a method of fixing the tresle ends that enables the table to be disassembled so it can be moved into one of these shoe boxes we Brits call houses thanks
lol
Eddy, not sure if you ever solved this or not, but I am working on a scaled down version, and I have swapped the pins and tails around on the apron, which allows me to break the table down in to sub-assemblies. The trestle ends are done with a wedged tenon in my case.
Correction. I used a double tusk tenon, not a wedged tenon. But it does allow it to be disassembled.
Paul, did I miss it ? How did you bore the draw bore holes and the square holes I would like to see how you made the square pegs also. The table is beautiful I really enjoy watching the videos.
Kirk
Sorry I just saw the foot note.
Kirk
Hey Paul great vid!
I know people said that they find some of the stuff you say is repetitive but you are just trying to teach people a system that you have developed over the years for people to follow and let us enjoy the true wonders of woodworking! Btw what combination square is good to buy if you are on a budget? Thanks again
Hello Henry,
reading this Blog may answer your question:
https://paulsellers.com/2012/08/buying-good-tools-cheap-2-the-combination-square/
Hope that helps.
Jens
Why the change to white glue? Seems like I usually see Paul using yellow glue? Also, I’m ignorant of the names… yellow is PVA, what is white?
Most of the videos I’ve seen have used a white glue, which is the usual colour of off-the-shelf PVA glue in the UK.