The Mitchell Trestle Table
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Cherry Mitchell Trestle 40" wide by 84" long, inset shown with our Williams Chairs

[ Click here for a larger image of the trestle table shown above, providing more detail of the wood, the fit, and the finish. ]

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The Mitchell Trestle Table is our interpretation of this basic structure:  boards spanning a braced frame.  The top boards are selected from our 2" thick stock and finish at 1 5/8" thick.
See Solid Wood Dining Table Top for an explanation of how we select wood for a dining table top.  The trestle table is unsurpassed for the display of these choice boards in a top.

These tops don't need elaboration.  We curve the ends to soften the outline.  We shape the edge to visually lighten the top and to please the hand that grips it.

The "uprights" at each end and the cross-member braces between aren't elaborate either.  But curves and contours are demanding and "clean and simple" is difficult.

There are choices:

• Species of wood.
• Size of top.
• Preparation and finish of the top.  (See Tabletop Finishes)

There are constants and limits:

• The top overhangs the trestle 16" at each end.  This provides knee room and room to tuck a chair most of the way under between meals.  To further benefit those sitting at the ends, we provide room for toes under the arch of the base.
• 36" wide is as narrow as is practical for service.
• 80" is as short as is possible for two chairs to fit between the platforms on the sides and for someone to sit at each end.
• The set looks best when not in use if the chairs on the side are pushed between the trestles, but when dining it is acceptable to add one or two chairs to each side so that the persons nearest the ends are straddling the trestles.  The pricing and seating charts below reflects both configurations.
• Tables 80–96" in length have three uprights at each trestle and one cross member.
• Tables 97–120" in length have four uprights at each trestle and two cross members.

Walnut Mitchell Trestle 40" wide by 84" long with our Wilson Chairs

*our cherry and maple are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC certified)

Cherry Mitchell Trestle 44" wide by 118" long with our Wilson Chairs

*our cherry and maple are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC certified)

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Please note:
We do not build dining tables without a set of chairs.  In order to compose pleasing compositions of figure in our table tops, we need to have a quantity of wood to choose from — and something to do with the wood we do not choose.  Chairs.  This is not to say the chairs get inferior wood — they just don't need long, clear, boards of even configuration.  Because we cut the boards for chairs into relatively small pieces, we can create pleasing compositions of figure in them as well.