The wife and I are moving into a new house in a few weeks. It has a massive covered back porch right off the kitchen/dining area, and I plan to use it as an extension of our dining area.
I want to build a trestle table for the porch because ... well, why not?
I am considering building it from cypress, but I have only a little experience with cypress. I built my wife a flag stand for her landscaping a few years ago. It looks very nice now that it's got that weathered gray.
So the other day, I pulled out a scrap from that project and I couldn't believe how lightweight it was. Like, crazy light. Now I'm wondering, is cypress strong enough for a table? Let's assume there'll be people sitting on it at some point when the bottle is getting low. Can it withstand the abuse?
Anyone have much experience with it?
The plan is a trestle table of about 6 feet long with two benches.
There's a local sawmill that saws a ton of cypress for whatever reason. I can get rough boards that are 2-inches-plus thick. I was going to use that for the benches and the undercarriage of the table and shoot for something like 1 1/8-1 1/4 inches thick for the top.