I was talked out of this project a few years ago because of wood expansion concerns, but its still bugging me. I want to make a demi-lune tabletop, using wedges of solid wood in a fan configuration. The triangular sections would of course be wide on one end and narrow on the other. So I understand that the outer radius would expand a lot in a radial direction, the center with narrow ends would not. So at full expansion, the back edge would not be a straight line, but I am OK with that. If I account for this uneven expansion in the way the top is attached to the apron, will it work? Anything else I'm missing?
I don't want to veneer a top. I have some walnut with a ribbon grain figure, that I think will look great this way.