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Step 5Finish and Details
For the ends of the stretcher tenons, a peg was traditionally used. Since we screwed ours in to save making the slanted hole and peg, we added a fake top and bottom of a peg to make it look better. You can see from the pictures how we cut it. It would probably be better to leave that 3.5" gap in the middle so diagonal lines up right, but these are small enough that people will not notice it unless they look closely. Those were cut out of some 1 x 3 inch pine, and each piece is 1.5 inches long.
To help protect our toes, we rounded off the table leg feet. We just used a jar lid for the curve pattern, and cut it out with the sabre saw.
One other traditional detail we chose not to do was chamfering the edges of the table legs, and stretcher. Since the 2x6 inch boards were already rounded, it looked fine for outside use already.
You could cut a hole in the middle of the table for an umbrella, and maybe arrange a bracket at the top center of the stretcher, or maybe add some boards on either side of the center of the stretcher to allow a hole to go through the stretcher.
To help protect our toes, we rounded off the table leg feet. We just used a jar lid for the curve pattern, and cut it out with the sabre saw.
One other traditional detail we chose not to do was chamfering the edges of the table legs, and stretcher. Since the 2x6 inch boards were already rounded, it looked fine for outside use already.
You could cut a hole in the middle of the table for an umbrella, and maybe arrange a bracket at the top center of the stretcher, or maybe add some boards on either side of the center of the stretcher to allow a hole to go through the stretcher.
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