"mike hide" wrote in message
Cedar I presume

Yeah, category 2 cedar (cedar with knots) as it's referred to around here.
At $2.17 a foot, much cheaper than completely knot free cedar which retails
at over $6 per foot.

Regarding the tenons, as the dado will relatively short
tenons, do you get the length by doing a couple of cut by moving the fence
?
Secondly are the top planks glued or not......

I didn't use the fence at all, just the mitre. The tenons at the top and
bottom of the legs are all through tenons. The two pieces each of the tops
and the feet (each piece having a half lap cut in it) are glued together
with Titebond III. There's no true mortises in this table, just through
tenons and half lap cuts.

No glue for the table top. The top planks are nailed into a cross member at
each end which is then bolted to the cross members at the tops of the legs.
The nails are Lee Valley's silicon-bronze ring nails. They've got a smaller
footprint, hold very well and are a reasonably close match in colour to the
cedar.

http://www.leevalley.com/hardware/pa...=3,41306,41324

I left any finishing decision up to my friends, but recommended Cabot's if
they do want to finish the table. (I hate finishing so this was my way of
getting out of it.)