I'd like a packable, period-oid table for camping or even just under dayshades and whatnot. Break-down trestles are the obvious solution, and I could save up money to buy them from a woodworker. I could try to make them myself, but I don't really have much woodworking skill, and it's not a process I especially enjoy.
I do want to support artisans, so there is definitely something to the idea of saving up. But a way to test-drive the design concept, to see if it actually works for me, without dropping $150 or so on a pair of trestles, would be nice.
Enter ODDVALD.
It's $15, solid (cheap, soft) wood, and assembles with six fasteners. The ugly bolts at the top would be hidden by the tabletop, I think. It's a four-legged trestle, not three-legged like all the medieval examples I've seen, but it's just very hard to beat that price. It only seems to come in black - I assume that plasticky lacquer stuff IKEA puts on everything - but some spray primer and a bright heraldic paint color (I like red, personally) would perk it right up. Maybe stencil some interlace on the legs or something.
For the tabletop, I am thinking two 12-inch boards of a length that will fit comfortably in my car. Some 1x1 screwed or nailed to the bottom, to corral the trestles, and then hinge them somehow. Actual hinges, or even just some tablet-woven webbing stapled on. Half to keep them together in storage, half to prevent one half of the tabletop from trying to escape.
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