Project Dining Room Table

I'm in the process of making a dining room table for my neighbors and I though I'd post an update now that I'm roughly halfway.

I was in the process of making some custom-ordered river shelves when Leslie and Matt stopped by and were curious what I was building. Either that or they wanted me to stop making so much noise. I'm pretty sure the conversation went like this:

Leslie: What're you making?
Me: I'm working on a shelf in the shape of the--
Leslie: Can you make us a dining room table?
Me: Uh sure. Would you like to look at the TV stand and console table I've made?
Leslie: I guess--
Matt: Yes.

I showed them the other furniture I've built and they promised to follow up with me via email. Later that evening I received an email from them with a link to a table on Restoration Hardware, and I put together a few sketches for the table. As all things do, my sketches became more detailed and complicated as I continued. I sketched out multiple table top configurations and I sketched out all the details of the base of the table.

Tabletop configuration options.

Leg sections.

Crossbeam section.

Because the legs of the table are angled, figuring out the correct length required me to dust off my geometry and trig skills. To complicate things further, I decided to notch and inset posts that intersected perpendicularly-ish. I say ish because most of the intersections are either 10 or 30 degrees off perpendicular. One last aspect that presents a construction challenge: I decided to make the table easy to disassemble into the four parts: two leg sections, the cross section, and the table top. I also want it to remain assembled when moving it by the table top, so I need some method to latch it down to the leg sections. I have three potential solutions in mind, but I need to see it fully assembled to gauge which will work best.

At this point, I still need to cut the matching Lincoln-log notches so the cross section fits into the leg sections, to cut and assemble the table top, to devise a way to hold it all together tightly when it's assembled, and to sand, stain and varnish it. I promised delivery by Thanksgiving, so I better hurry!