danmosheim

sweet piece craig ... beautiful design, excellent choice of materials and first rate execution ... I particularly like the detail you added at the bottom of the leg. It pulls it all together .... gold star for you ... dan

Thanks everyone for your comments ... I'm glad you like the metal base. It was great working with my older son on that. It is pretty heavy but, although we delivered the base in one piece, the 1.5" steel round and the 1/4" flatstock top connector unbolt from the two 'trestles'so you can take it apart if you want to. I'd guess the base weighs about 150 and the top another 75 or so pounds ... It was a fun project start to finish. We're working on a coffee table with a similar slab top now.

Hi Tom ... This happened to one of my clients recently. He lost a good part of his house and we're still cleaning the smoke damaged stuff that didn't burn up completely. i have some good tips on that if anyone's interested ...Here's a link below to my post about it ...

http://dorsetcustomfurniture.blogspot.com/2009/06/linseed-oil-cautionary-tale.html

To bore the holes on the Multirouter, (you could make the same set up for a drill press),we used a .25" router bit that had been commercially sharpened a few times so that the hole it made was less than .25, and about the perfect size for the tensioning hardware. I think we had to redrill the holes slightly larger after boring them on the multirouter so that the fit of the bolts was tight, but not too tight.