How to Make a Reclaimed Wood Tabletop

A handyman is often faced with the problem that he does not know what to do with the wood scraps from his various building projects. You stand around just in the way and will eventually be thrown away because you just can not find a good use for them.

 It can be built from small wood residues and waste even more useful furniture such as chairs or tables. Tables are available in all possible shapes, colors and materials. And yet it may happen that you can not find the perfect table for your own purposes and needs.

As well, if you have a little technical skill and a table can build yourself. In our model, there is a square table made ​​of solid wood with a table top made ​​of wood residues that were combined to form an attractive checkerboard pattern. So you can combine the useful with the beautiful and still save money.

The table top has a size of 114 x 114 cm and is 73 cm high. Of course, the details of the instructions can be adapted to individual needs and circumstances in the room. However, one should use at a larger table additional intermediate struts or a base plate as a support for the surface so that the table does not sag or may break under load.

Tools and materials for the table

tool

•      Screw or clamp ferrules
•      Ruler or tape measure
•      Router or biscuit jointer
•      Screwdriver with bits
•      Drill with wood drill bit
•      Marking
•      Squares
•      Firmer and Carpenter's
•      Fine saw
•      Sander or random orbital sander, sanding block and sandpaper
•      Bidao

material

•       64 wooden squares: 25 x 120 x 120 mm (table top)
•      2 wood boards: 25 x 90 x 960 mm (table top)
•      2 wood boards: 25 x 90 x 1140 mm (top)
•      4 Squares: 90 x 90 x 705 mm (table frame)
•      4 Squares: 60 x 160 x 980 mm (table frame)
•      Biscuit: Size 20 (56 x 23 x 4 mm)
•      wood glue

 

Cutting and gluing of the segments

Since we are working with wood scraps from the local hobby shop, they will even cut to size with a circular saw. The table plate is formed by the timber 64 are squares joined to a square area of ​​96 x 96 cm. Use biscuit to connect the individual squares together. With a biscuit jointer you can set the slots for it in the appropriate places quickly and easily.

Connect the wooden boards

The segments should be arranged so that more grain and end grain meet. This has two reasons: First, the surface looks more alive, because the checkerboard pattern prominent. Secondly, increasing by this type of compound, the stability of the tabletop. Grain surfaces are in fact highly absorbent and relatively rough, so that a gluing of two grain surfaces is not very promising. If you build the table, you should also make sure that the edges are flush and there are no gaps.

 Gluing and sanding the table top

To the checkered box frame from the four 96 and 114 centimeters long wooden boards will be built, which holds the surface and protects. Thus, to prevent the surface diverges in the individual paths, or is damaged. This also means that one uses pressure allowances so as not to damage the wood surface with a clamp or clamps. When the glue has dried, you should free the tabletop with an orbital sander of irregularities. Also interrupt the outer edges of the table top with sanding block and paper.

Table frame build

The table frame is composed of four table legs and four side parts which are connected to a slot and pin connection. In the ends of the side pieces to work with a fine saw cones. These are four centimeters long, four inches thick and 14 inches wide. In the table legs mating slots with wood chisel and Carpenter's be caulked. Since the slots are always two inches away from the outer sides of the legs, the sides do not close flush with them. Instead, these are easily offset inwardly with the table legs glued.

Marriage of frame and table top

After completion of table top and table base their compound. As our picture shows, you can pocket the entire top of the table frame with wood glue and then put on the table top and secure with clamp clamps until the connection is dry. The use of additional metal brackets that are bolted from the inside with table top and frame is possible. If you just want to hang up the table top loose, at least small strips of wood are needed that are so screwed under the tabletop that they prevent the table top at the back-and-forth-slides. The possibilities are endless. Try it!