Carpentry and Woodworking - Making Table Legs....?

Hi Everyone,

I am rebuilding a harvest type table...top is 1" thick x 2 ft x 8ft hard maple(butcher block look) and with a 7" wide red oak skirt. I unfortunately cannot reuse the original legs as they are too short and in poor condition.

I would like to get or make new legs approx. 36" in height, square, simple and matching the red oak on the table. I am unfortunately having no luck in finding legs I want or any for that matter at a reasonable price.

Would it be a bad idea to perhaps use the redwood deck columns like the ones sold at HD for new legs? I was thinking I could then glue/nail 1'8"-1/4" thick red oak to the faces of the redwood...

Bad idea? Better idea? Any opinions would be great!

Thx, Paul

Paul: since you already have two types of woods in the surface and skirt, you may want to stick with one of them. Of course maple is a good choice, but oh the cost. Now, you can buy 4" square red oak stock and use it for the legs, but you would want someone to do some turning or something to eliminate the square look. I don't think installing the laminate onto redwood would give you what you would be looking for. Check into laminated oak stock. It doesn't look that bad and is very strong. Hope it helps. Post back if we can help further.

Maybe try looking at some online table leg sources. Such as....


http://www.tablelegs.com/

There are a few other websites. If you do a google search for table legs, you'll get all sorts of them.