Plans for a Pedestal Coffee Table

[barnsey]

Got some good Aussie Red cedar that I reckon might make a good coffee table. Have a few ideas of my own but am struggling to make them come together.

The one depicted below is probably as close as I can find but I want to turn the pedestals and why on earth would anyone want an extension in a coffee table.?!

Also I'm not convinced on the integrity of the design structurals - making it in cedar I'm not convinced biscuits and screws in those feet are quite up to scratch nor the table top to the pedestals 4 screws into the end grain of the pedestal?. Trouble is I'm not experienced enough to know what would be best and/or how to engineer it.

Any ideas anyone??

Jamie

Pedestal Coffee Table (http://canadianhomeworkshop.com/proj_coffee_table.html)

[Fantapantz]

The pedestal on the photo enclosed is octagonal. This makes it easy to attach the legs on a flat side. If you turn the pedestal make sure you don't turn it all the way to the bottom cause if you do the shoulders on the legs have to be curved. You can turn it slightly in this area, but you need the flat to join the leg on (without creating huge dramas anyway).

Personally I would use mortice and tenons for the leg to pedestal (shoulders/ top haunch probably down to 3mm), for the pedestal to top use a cross half check in 42x19 (42 vertical), house this in the top of the pedestal and screw the 42x19 to the top.

Many ways but if still unsure.........use araldite instead of PVA.....