Dave,

I’ll bet again it’s plywood.

I’ve had the edge banding off…heck I might even have an old table ( salvaged from a burned van at wreckers) in the barn with no edge banding.

I’ll take a pic to prove this super important point

:-)

Alistair 
> On Apr 28, 2021, at 7:01 AM, David McNeely <davmcneely40@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have removed & reattaced the plate.  The table is particle board.  I have
> always thought the whole thing was no quite up to par, especially the screw
> to release, tighten in place.  How a person with big hands gets under there
> to handle that can't figure.  Allistair, didn't you once design a levered
> clamp for that?  Seems that would stop rattles, too.
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 9:32 PM Kyle Stuhr <uglybones@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I’ve never cut into it, but I always thought that, by judging by weight,
>> it was particle board.  Interesting.
>> Sent from the briny depths.
>> 
>>>> On Apr 27, 2021, at 9:12 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>