PC folding table

[salkehatchie]

Alright, I have had it. Went to Ft. de Chartres this weekend on a fly by and this family is getting back into the camping side of re-enacting!

So...got lots of gear, but...no table!

Where can I get pictures/drawings of a politically correct "juryable" folding table for the juried events? My younger brother is a former cabinet maker and has all the toys, so no need to buy one.

Thank you!

 

[pargent]

Google plans for camp tables , pick one that is pchc or modify one to make it so and cut loose

 

[mmahlock]

You don't mention time period. You might take a look at "Encyclopedia of COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE and FURNITURE" there are tables shown with enough detail to reproduce starting around page 300. You can access it on Google under books. This was published in 1839. Given preparation time and lead time to publish back then the illustrations should be considered good for the 1820s.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Here is nice type of Folding Table that you often see at juried events, but omit the coat-of-arms if you aren't doing Renaissance.

Here is a link to a Links Page with all sorts of ideas on camp furniture. You can modify them to suit. Not all of the links are Ren Fair style, as the medieval groups tend to be less into the authentic stuff.

LD

 

[Trench]

This is a table from the 1890's. It was made by the Clipper sewing table company. It folds away, but when it is set up there isn't much of any period-descript features to it. I found it at an antique mall for $40.

 

[Bear Rider]

You can cover a lot of PC sins with a tablecloth or old wool blanket thrown over the table. :grin:

 

[Rifleman1776]

I have an old video (yes, I still have a player) by Roy Underhill that shows a camp table that folds up into a suitcase-like box that can be carried. Been meaning to try making this for many years. I have several of his books, hafta look, he may have that table in one of them as a project.

 

[salkehatchie]

OK. Thank you guys, should give me enough info to get started.

 

[mmahlock]

Here is nice type of Folding Table that you often see at juried events, but omit the coat-of-arms if you aren't doing Renaissance.

Here is a link to a Links Page with all sorts of ideas on camp furniture. You can modify them to suit. Not all of the links are Ren Fair style, as the medieval groups tend to be less into the authentic stuff.

LD

If find it interesting that the first table you linked to is accepted at "juried" events since I have never been able to find a 19 c. much less 18 c. example of that type of table. I've noticed that what is accepted at these events tend to be as much what the jury thinks is acceptable as what is documented. Frequently anything made of wood is acceptable e.g. the mid 1950 New Jersey wood slat two piece beach chair. What I have found in my research are tables like these:

This example is from 1859 but the design goes back to before 1800 (Napoleon used one in his headquarters that has survived)

Here are more designs from the late 18 c. to early 19 c.

Based on period (mid to late 18 c. and early 19 c.) tables made from a set of legs like these with a top that includes an apron or at least blocks to engage the top of the legs appear to be fairly common.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Well actually the two piece chair that you reference isn't accepted at any of the "juried" events that accept the folding table to which I linked. :haha:

I'd say it's a two fold situation..., folks don't know furniture very well, so don't know what's 1770 vs. 1840, and they don't know what went out of fashion or design..., so if one shows a medieval or Renaissance design with documentation "this [fill in name of item here] is documented as early as 1330..., look here is my source"..., you rarely find folks who know enough to be able to reply, "That's a nice piece if your name is Sir Campsalot, but such an item was not made in the 1700's". :rotf:

AND the original poster was looking for "a politically correct "juryable" folding table for the juried events"..., :shocked2: ..., and isn't it always what the jury decides is acceptable? :grin:

LD

 

[Woods Dweller]

Alright, I have had it. Went to Ft. de Chartres this weekend on a fly by and this family is getting back into the camping side of re-enacting!

So...got lots of gear, but...no table!

Where can I get pictures/drawings of a politically correct "juryable" folding table for the juried events? My younger brother is a former cabinet maker and has all the toys, so no need to buy one.

Thank you!

Knocking together a table & bench in the frontier would have been made from almost anything that was on hand. People moving west from the cost, would have had some basic knowledge of some carpentry to build a cabin and furnish it with basic tables & Benches.

Trestle Tables & Benches http://www.bloodandsawdust.com/sca/campstuff.html


Bench (If you have any carpenter skills you can modify this bench into a table.) http://www.greydragon.org/furniture/benches.html

 

[Pigman]

Wouldn’t the most common frontier table be a plank door spread across two barrels or saw horses?

Foster From Flint

 

[Woods Dweller]

plank door spread across a saw horses?

Unc your right, this is basicle what is in this link. 2 planks together and a saw horse. Simpul.
http://www.bloodandsawdust.com/sca/campstuff.html

 

[Rifleman1776]

Wouldn’t the most common frontier table be a plank door spread across two barrels or saw horses?

Foster From Flint

Not necessarily. Folks were resourceful and became skilled at making things out of necessity. Touring reconstructed villages will turn up fairly well made, albiet basic, furniture.
When Ma 'n Pa pulled up to a spot in the forest and said "We'll build our cabin here." their first table might have been as you suggest. But as time would go by they would make improvements, including furniture.

 

[Black Hand]

Wouldn’t the most common frontier table be a plank door spread across two barrels or saw horses?

Foster From Flint

Why go through all the trouble to make a door AND sawhorses when you could just make a table for half the effort?

 

[pargent]

Made one for myself like in fig.1&2 , they were a fairly common military ,para military table from the very early 1700s. Easy to carry in a bagagetrain or on board ship . :thumbsup: