Where To Buy Table Legs

kentishchap

Hi All

I wish to make my own dining table, this so I can have it in a bespoke size and mainly to save money!

However I want to put a really heavy top on (i.e. stone) which will be very heavy (i.e. 100kg). Does anyone have any idea where I can get some heavy duty table legs only, that I can then purchase the stone top and assemble myself?

I have spent days online and ringing local (in Kent) iron merchants and not getting anywhere.

Please help!

PasturesNew

I saw a recent telly programme where they take a couple and they take their current house and produce two "walk through designs" where they put on eye-glasses and see themselves standing in two 3D versions of how their current house could be changed. They then pick one and do it.

One of them had a chap who was cooking obsessed, he really wanted the whole house to be a big kitchen; wife/kids weren't too enamoured of that.

When they returned, he'd got a big kitchen in the back room with a heavy worktop - and he'd also used the same stuff to create a monster sized dining table. He had used two "X-shaped" legs bases.

I'll see if I can track down the episode for you.... if lucky, I might even get the words they said and a screenie.

EDIT

Show: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004gth
52 minutes in. He's got solid oak.
"This is quite an epic table, where did you buy it?"
"I didn't. We made it"
"Expensive?"
"Not at all. The legs were £300...."

Image: https://postimg.cc/py0VDLKF (expires in 31 days)

Aylesbury_Duck

Have you considered reclaimed material? Scout the web for a second-hand table with legs suitable for your project?

Snooker tables have to have very strong legs. Might be a start.

DigForVictory

+1 for salvage yards, but also for auction houses where the table has been damaged but the legs still have a working life. Or even pianos past playable but still stood.

kentishchap

thanks for replies.

I will search for episodes as well, might give me more ideas and reclaimed material would be fine.

naf123

IKEA sells table legs but do not know how strong they are. Maybe trestles?

kentishchap

Thanks PasturesNew.. that was quick. You have achieved more in a few mins then I have for days..much appreciated

PasturesNew

kentishchap wrote: »

Thanks PasturesNew.. that was quick. You have achieved more in a few mins then I have for days..much appreciated

You're welcome. You were lucky I watched it and remembered.

Mind you - £300 on legs is no way to save money is it

But the idea/design/concept of how it gets its strength from an engineering perspective might help you to consider that shape as an idea.

kentishchap

Yes agree.

But we are after something bespoke, mainly in terms of size to to fill the room and unfortunately bespoke ready made dining tables are very expensive.

naf123

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/580649241/set-of-2-x-shape-stainless-steel-diy?gpla=1&gao=1&utm_campaign=shopping_uk_en_gb_MetaLovePL_sfc_osa&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_custom1=0&utm_content=13333320&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhJTP1ZKR4gIV5pPtCh3CkQHTEAQYASABEgKzNfD_BwE

getmore4less

Tables are cheap it's the chairs that cost money.

Consider getting legs in the same stone or concrete and clad.

If the top is big enough a central support will work.

What size shape are you aiming for?