Quote Originally Posted by John TenEyck View Post
That sure looks nice, massive, too. I'd be interested to hear how it fairs over the next year. It looks like you neglected to consider seasonal wood movement with the breadboard ends and angle iron banding; same with the cleats underneath. I hope I'm wrong and you did something clever to let the center panel in the top expand and contract.
John
John, was browsing some of my earlier project posts and rand across the above. Do you recall the steel banded table I made for my Sister and posted about in August of 2015. You indicated an interest in how it would fare.

It has been more than 3 years since it was built. This is a photo of it as of yesterday and to quote my sister, "I think it's doing great", in a text I got with the photo.
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From the original posting.
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Would like to go see it myself but she is about 80miles north of me and I don't travel well anymore.

Anyway, what do you think. Really hard to tell there is any difference.

It has however stayed in an air-conditioned house and was built in an air-conditioned shop so maybe we got lucky. The timbers and wood used in it had been in my shop for several months so it was fairly well acclimated to air-conditioning.