Hi everyone,
I could use some help with a table I am designing/building.
So I am designing a Dutch pull-out extension table based on a Tage Frid model from a 1977 issue of Fine Woodworking. In that article he says that "because the table top is loose and the slides for the leaves are glued and screwed to the leaves, the top and the leaves must be made of either plywood or using frame-and-panel construction."
I am planning on a top something like 54" L x 40" W and leaves something like 40" x 20". Grain orientation for the leaves will be transverse with respect to the top.
My question is: supposing the table is made out of Cherry, would breadboarding the ends of the top be adequate to resist warping? And would adding solid wood "frame" elements to the long edges of the top with mortise/tenon joints into breadboard ends add enough additional dimensional stability?
I guess I am asking whether I can make the frame-and-panel construction out of solid wood? Or whether the panel of the frame-and-panel needs to be plywood?
Thanks in advance for any insight/suggestions.
-Mark