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Message:: [QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 2098873, member: 5066"]About that batten ( called bearer by the English) and why they are important on this form of table. No isn't and, kinda tricky to mill, check out this photo looking down on frame "Those thinking ahead will have realised that the three boards of the top will be well supported at one end (where they cross one of the rails at ninety degrees), however, at their opposite ends, only the centre board will be wholly supported and the ends of the two outside boards will be left tentatively detached from the frame. The solution is to let in a bearer, the same width as the base of the triangle and equidistant from the table centre as the base of the triangle (fig. 10)."[ATTACH=full]250279[/ATTACH]                                   Fig. 10. The bearer in situ. The bearer was nailed to the underside of the top with wrought nails (fig. 12) after the top was attached to the table frame with more pegs (fig. 13).[ATTACH=full]250280[/ATTACH]                                    Fig. 12. Bearer nailed to top.[ATTACH=full]250281[/ATTACH]                         Fig. 13. The table top pegged in place…[/QUOTE]