How To Make Wooden Trestle Legs
Trestle Table Legs DIY Guide PDF - Bock 2012.
How to make wooden trestle legs. This is a simple process to laminate lumber to make bigger stock. Repeat this process for the opposite side of the trestle. Measure up 200mm this will be to the top of the rail on one end of all the leg pieces and square a pencil line across.
Then turn the trestle on its side and draw lines on the other outside faces of the legs using the lines already made as guides. Reverse the trestle and do the same with the legs at the other end. Whether you put an old door or recycled timber floor boards on top - its up to you.
With attention to detail these minimal timber trestles are the perfect base for your own unique table. Take the cross member and using a 35mm drill bit pre-drill 2 holes in each end. Now lay another cross member down and fix at the top of the legs.
I made 4 extra wide. J Now that you have made the legs lay them down. To attach the 22 braces use spacers to make them centered along the 24.
Its not as difficult as you w. Build the A-frame using 2½ countersunk screws. This is how I make my 3x3 table or bench legs using only 2X4s and wood glue.
Cut 8 pieces of 75 x 20 at 740mm legs and 8 at 560mm cross members. Screw in the 35mm screws in the pre-drilled ends and using your square ensure the cross member is perpendicular to the legs. A countersink drill bit makes this really easy.