That's a good idea, and if I run the plugs along the grain of the table they would practically disappear. I did contrasting plugs on my recent trestle table and was pretty happy with it, but wondered if I shouldn't have hidden the joinery.Chris Hall wrote:Full length sliding dovetail with crosswise plugs on either end can be done sufficiently cleanly so that the joinery mechanism is very discrete.Brian wrote:Are you thinking the hidden sliding dovetails? Not sure the proper name, but they fall into a mortise then knock sideways into a sliding dovetail.
I could do that for the stretcher as well, and have it join together with the upright with a rod tenon, that would look nice and give a hint that there is more to it for those that would like to investigate further.