Milling lumber

I did some rough milling of the tabletop lumber today. The tabletop should be 100 cm wide. I can make that from 5 boards. I have a nice broad one for the middle and then two more on either side of it. This was just rough milling to get the boards flat. I will not let them rest for a while as they might still live now that I have milled them. I will do the final milling next time.

I also sorted out the attachment of the legs to the tabletop. I will use a tapered dovetail to attach a cross beam to the table top and then attach the legs to the cross beam with some reinforcements. The problem here is that the wood in the table lives very differently along and across the grain. The dovetail joint will allow the legs and the tabletop to move independently as the humidity changes over the year.