Plans for a Versailles or Refectory Table

Fri, Nov 12, 2004, 8:30pm [email protected]
(Keith=A0or=A0Denita=A0Davis) one of which wants to know:
<snip> It looks like a table with two tops and the leaves pull out from
underneath the top. <snip>

Known as a draw table.

The Australian Woodworker magazine says it is in one of their older
issues but it is actually a basic trestle table. <snip>

The earliest versions WERE trestle tables.



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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 20:30:59 -0500, "Keith or Denita Davis"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Do any of you fine woodworkers out there know were I can find a plan for a
>Versailles Table? It is sometimes referred to as a Dutch table or a
>Refectory Table.

Never heard any of those names (at least not an extendable refectory
table)

>It looks like a table with two tops and the leaves pull out from underneath
>the top.

Tage Frid's 3rd book "Furnituremaking" isn't the most useful book he
wrote, but it does have an excellent section on the many variations of
extending table mechanisms.

Charles Haywards "Period Furniture Designs" also has a drawing of a
Tudor (?) extendable table that's probably very close to what you're
after. This book has been out of print for years, but Hayward was a
prolific author in his day (he was editor of a UK woodworking magazine
in the '50s) and copies of his books are still easy to find S/H. Most
of his books are interesting, but not essential reading. "Carving and
Gilding" is worth having. "Period Furniture Designs" though is
excelent and one of those rare books of measured drawings of
historical pieces, written by a woodworker rather than an antiquarian.
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