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Your build is looking great, hope it gives you many hours of satisfaction when it's done.

First, I do want to apologize for the length of my last post. It's just that there were some preliminaries to get out of the way, and I wanted MamboFats to understand how to use a tool in case he had some new idea that he wanted to explore. My examples will get less theoretical and more...

And that brings me to today's installment...beams. Beams are very important. If you really understand how beams work, then you can understand pool table frames a lot better. A beam is any long member that carries a load over an empty space beneath it. In our case, it will be carrying the...

Well, if the corner legs were an inch taller than the center legs, then the center legs would be taking zero weight. Even if they were all of equal length, if the center slate was bowed (or if the frame supporting it was bowed) upward, then the center legs would take less weight. Everything I...

Well, then let's start with members in compression, because that's easier. Every material has a modulus of elasticity, which is the ratio of stress to strain, or how far it moves per pound of force. For sugar pine parallel to the grain, that's given as 1,190,000 pounds per square inch. That...

I'm not a mechanic, but I am an engineer, and can analyze just about any design that can be imagined. Let me start with a concern that was expressed in post #2: "...a big, heavy slate is only directly supported by a couple of dozens of small wood pieces, totalling maybe 20 square inches of...