ÿþ<html> <head><title>Folding Table</title></head> <body background="bg01.png"> <center><font size=5><b><i>Folding Table</b></i></font></center><hr> </p> <a href="oct-table01.jpg" target="new"><img src="oct-table01b.png" align="left"></a>After breathing new life into the trestle table with the new legs, I still had the folding plywood legs with the quatrefoil design cut out...I didn't want to get rid of them since I'd spent so much time on them, and after coming across a table featured at <a href="http://www.greydragon.org/">Master Terafan's Greydragon website</a>, I had the answer to my dilemma.</p> Since my legs were already hinged, I simply made an octagonal table top with cleats that could fit over the legs, and with holes drilled so that a pin can be inserted. This enables one to pick up the table & carry it around without it collapsing. </p> My belief is that the original version found in the Cluny Museum (see Master Terafan's website) may be a carved-in wooden hinge...remember the little wooden 'pliers' carved from a single piece of balsa wood that were considered toys when we were kids? I think it may be made the same way, the legs being carved from one solid plank then split so that they fold out, and then the decor carved afterward. I think the base might possibly be either one large rigid piece or it's mortised, and the legs are mortised to sit into it. The top of the legs clearly peg to the tabletop via a drilled block attached to the table top. </p> Since SCA furniture must endure a lot of abuse and I do not wish to make constant repairs, my tabletop has 1"x2"'s forming channels that the legs fit into with a hole drilled thru each one for a 1/4" steel hitch (ring) pin. The block used on the original could easily be broken or knocked off but low-profile channels are more durable.</p> The object of this project was not to replicate an extant artifact or to utilize period techniques; it was a salvage operation to create a conjecturally period table. It is stained with Minwax "English Chestnut" and a satin polyurethane. Completed June 2009.</p> <hr> <table border=0 width=100%><tr><td colspan=2><center><i>Click on image for larger version</i></td></tr> <tr><td> <i><b>Original folding table:</b></i><br> <a href="http://www.greydragon.org/trips/Paris%202004/index5.html"><img src="foldingtable.png"></a> <a href="http://www.greydragon.org/trips/Paris%202004/index5.html"><img src="infocard.png"></a> <br> <a href="http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/">Cluny Museum (Museé de Moyenage), Paris, France</a> </td> <td> <i><b>My version:</b></i><br> <a href="oct-table02.png"><img src="oct-table02b.png"></a> <a href="oct-table03.png"><img src="oct-table03b.png"></a> <a href="oct-table04.png"><img src="oct-table04b.png"></a> </td></tr></table> </p> <hr> <a href="http://www.housebarra.com">Home</a></p> <a href="/projects">Projects</a></p> </center> </body> </html>