I have recently completed construction on this Ash dining table - next weekend I will start sanding, rounding off edges, squaring off the ends, applying finish etc.... Thickness of the top is 2.5", and it is 38" wide, 70" long. It's about 30.75" tall. I used epoxy for the glue up for two reasons. One is that I wanted the prolonged open time to allow enough time to apply the epoxy to all the pieces (and the many, many dominoes i used to help alignment) and two is that there was some time that elapsed between final milling and actual glue up (epoxy-up?) so I figured there might some small gaps between some of the boards I could not completely eliminate with clamps. It came together fine with just minimal gaps between the boards here and there. The joinery between legs and table top is 1/2" fingers which I made with my pantorouter. The tops of the legs are 2.5" square and taper down to about 1.75" at the bottom. So my question is...how do we think the epoxied finger joints will hold up over time? Would it be advisable to insert a wooden dowel/pin through these joints? I could do this with an angled hole drilled from underneath the table through the joint (but not all the way through) to conceal it.
Scott B