How To Make Timber Trestle Legs
The legs on the pencil marks.
How to make timber trestle legs. Anika wanted a unique and beautiful dining table for her space and this is what we came up with. Pass the rope through the holes melting the end with a lighter helps stop it fraying tie a knot at both ends and trim and melt the rope. With attention to detail these minimal timber trestles are the perfect base for your own unique table.
Cheap Easy Low-waste Trestle Table Plans. Make sure you measure accurately to get the best tight fit. Repeat this process for the opposite side of the trestle.
Please Subscribe like and comment It only takes a second and it help me a tonI didnt show how I attached the table top the the base. It can can be set up or taken apart in a minute or two using no tools a. I made 4 extra wide.
Watch the video to see how you can make your own. This will stop the legs from opening to wide. Take the cross member and using a 35mm drill bit pre-drill 2 holes in each end.
Open the trestle up so its about 300mm wide. After you have confirmed a good fit go ahead and apply Carpenters Wood Glue to the bottom and insides of the table leg and then use 1 14 finish nails to secure. Measure up 200mm this will be to the top of the rail on one end of all the leg pieces and square a pencil line across.
Now lay another cross member down and fix at the top of the legs. Dont be fooled by that thick slab of a tabletop its actually made of 34-inch thick material thats been wrapped with a wider board. Run the 13 boards through the table saw at 45 to create the miter edge.
