We've gone through a few dining tables at home recently. I'd made a trestle table that we loved out of some reclaimed heart pine leftover from an old project. Then we decided to put that table into our cafe. I made a replacement that stayed with us for a few months before I sold it (along with it's chairs and bench) to a local builder for his conference room. This is our latest. It's made from old joists that came out of a local building from the late 1800's. The design is inspired by old cast iron factory benches and machinery bases. I planed and polished the tops, but left the old rough patinated surface on the edges. The bases are painted with flat black milk paint. Stretchers are steel pipe. I'm not supposed to sell this one, but I don't see a big difference between making a new one for you or for us. ;)

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