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When searching for simple furniture designs I often come across Ana White's site.
Maybe I am crazy, but a lot of her designs DON'T seem to take into account any wood expansion or contraction.
Here are a couple of sketchup images from one of her table plans. In short, the table planks are pocket screwed to one another, then pocket screwed to the breadboards, and then the whole shebang is pocket screwed to the rails...
To join JUST the table planks and the breadboard ends she uses 50 pocket screws
Then she mounts it to the rails / aprons via pocket screws:
She is using 2X8 planks for the table top (the center is a 2X10 plank).
Now is a table like this actually going to hold up with seasonal expansion or contraction?
Or is this thing going to start ripping itself apart as the seasons change, leaving the owner of the table (pocket) screwed out of their time and money?
Maybe I am crazy, but a lot of her designs DON'T seem to take into account any wood expansion or contraction.
Here are a couple of sketchup images from one of her table plans. In short, the table planks are pocket screwed to one another, then pocket screwed to the breadboards, and then the whole shebang is pocket screwed to the rails...

To join JUST the table planks and the breadboard ends she uses 50 pocket screws

She is using 2X8 planks for the table top (the center is a 2X10 plank).
Now is a table like this actually going to hold up with seasonal expansion or contraction?
Or is this thing going to start ripping itself apart as the seasons change, leaving the owner of the table (pocket) screwed out of their time and money?