Thread: Simple Jarrah table - does it exist?

Just thought I would let you know about my new little project.
I plan is to make a nice dinning table. roughly 900 x 1100 x 720.
Thinking of building the legs and frame first, then build the top from joining 19mm x 160mm thick Jarrah boards.

Tell me if Im way off track here, but I thought of getting the boards for the top redressed and thicknessed (to remove the small amount of cupping) just before I buscuit join the boards together. The one piece table top would then be joined to the frame (allowing for expansion and movement by using some sort of metal fasterners (possibly something like figure 8's or similar).

The 4 legs I have are currently each 40mm square (too skinny?). Held in the standard apron / frame fashion but, rather than mortise / tennon, I was considering using the router to cut a 10mm deep housing starting from the top of the leg, down the leg the height of the apron. The leg would be secured to the apron by glue and a metal bracket / leg base hardware. If this makes sense to you, it would mean that the weakest point should be if the legs were to be pulled down. But with the weight and orientation of the table this should not be an issue. Am I correct?

Any suggestions or comments from the best fasteners to any scarry things I might need to know would be appreciated, but I have been trawling the forum and have already found heaps of great stuff - thanks already!

PS. I dont own a jointer or a thicknesser and am in the Epping area Sydney. There used to be a workshop in Kurring gai but I think it is gone. Anyone know where??

Cheers