[mauvehaus]

Not the person you're asking, but also a woodworker. If you just want a basic table, you can put one together crazy fast with the right tools.

Not counting milling time, because if this wasn't my job, I wouldn't have a jointer and planer, I've put together a basic bench in an afternoon, which is fundamentally the same construction as a joined table. It would take longer for sure without a router to cut the mortises and a table saw to cut the tenons, but probably still only a day. If you put a gun to my head and made me pick only one of those, I'd keep the router.

I built a staked table for my partner entirely by hand (including milling the top) last April, and had that pretty well put together in a week. I didn't have a way to turn the tenons, so that part was a very slow and iterative process. That I did twice, because I kind of botched it the first time and had my rake and splay pretty inconsistent. Fortunately, I left the legs long.

[derekp7]

If you want even faster (and can hide the holes as part of the design) then pocket holes can get the framing together really fast. They have good tensile strength, and decent bending strength in one direction but not the other. So your design has to account for that, however for putting together a basic desk (see the plans in my Reddit thread I linked in the other comment), or the carcass for a dresser unit, they work wonderfully (even if it is "cheating" a bit).