Would anyone care to help with a dining table design?

[Jim Foster]

Butting in on the design: have you considered a trestle table. It's in the Arts&Craft and Mission style and if you plan the trestle dimensions right you can get a reasonable number of people seated. Also attaching the base to the top is simplified.

[Harold Burrell]

Butting in on the design: have you considered a trestle table. It's in the Arts&Craft and Mission style and if you plan the trestle dimensions right you can get a reasonable number of people seated. Also attaching the base to the top is simplified.

Yeah...I actually sent them pics of several different table designs (including trestles). They chose this one.

I have, however, spoken with them and told them about my (our) misgivings concerning this particular design. I will be sending them a pic of the raker table mentioned above.