Four-Square - Chunky solid oak table and benches

This seriously chunky solid oak furniture was made for a manor house with a enormous and beautifully stunning garden that’s open to the public.
Made out of very large 100mm thick slabs of high quality oak this table will easily last a lifetime and then some. The sheer size and weight of these pieces mean its not suitable for many domestic settings, with the table alone weighing in at easily 1/4 of a ton, once its in place it would be no mean feat to move it.
The table is entirely constructed from 200mm x 100mm planks of green oak which are planed smooth before the joinery begins. The leg sections are joined with traditional mortice and tenon joints which are secured together using a dried oak dowel to draw the joint together. This is the same way oak building like barns and stables have been built for hundreds of years giving an extremely stable joint. The top planks are then shaped and doweled in place from below so not to break up the solid look of the oak from above. The Benches are made in exactly the same way but using slightly smaller timbers for the legs.
Everything is joined using nothing but oak in different stages in the drying process, so as the green oak seasons the joinery gets tighter and the furniture gets more and more solid and stable.
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