Bonnin Ashley Custom-Made Maple Dining Table with Trestle & Natural Wood Finish

About the construction: We use two sliding dovetail trestle-cross braces to connect the table to the trestle bases. This is done by cutting a dovetail socket the width of the underside of the table and then driving the pin and tail cut on the top of the cross brace through the channel. This allows the table to expand and contract regardless of your climatic conditions and will prevent the tabletop from checking or cupping. The support bracket is then pegged to the upper trestle bases. Our cabinetry employs 19th century joinery techniques and practices that we have learned and come to understand through our 35-year history of doing restoration work. The wood we use for the tops is sourced from a small family mill in New England that only cuts old growth trees that are in distress. Their wood is extraordinary and unlike commercially available lumber; the grain is tight, the planks are wide and the surface patterns can be exceptional. It is comparable to wood used for cabinetry back in the 19th century.