Archengine
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Registered: 11/30/07
Posts: 400
Loc: Frankfort Ky
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Agreed, I would aim for around 17" tall.
Rob
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MichaelMouse
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Registered: 05/17/05
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One of those graft pieces with the great color? As I recall, they were not cheap.
Back when I was stationed at the north end of the valley I made some slab stuff. I coped the stretchers on the "natural" bottom types on the ones I liked best. Not a genre I was fond of, but I was a 2LT then, with a mortgage and a first kid, so a buck was a buck.
You can also pocket for the legs with a router or pocket for the center of the stretchers to float the top. I fox-wedged the leg type, counterbored and screwed the others.
I go along with 2-2 1/2 being more than thick enough.
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Humanbackhoe
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Registered: 04/06/07
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Loc: Savage, Md.
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Bill Wilson said:
Would there be any risk of it coming apart if/when someone tried to pick the table up by it's top to move it?
At 5 1/2" X 18" X 48" with large legs.....It doesn't seem like someone would think of lifting that table 
Andrew
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"That's like getting a running start and diving headfirst into the vortex."
Steve Freidman 4/21/2013
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mbw
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Registered: 02/07/08
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Loc: pa
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Not sure if this applies to your situation, but when I built my work bench I connected the top, with friction fit 1 inch dowels, no glue. Top is removable with a dead blow.
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