Building A Wooden Table Top

To make a flat solid wood tabletop that stays flat throughout its life you need to choose prepare machine and join its boards correctly.

Building a wooden table top.

Time to build a new table top. Step 1 cut the lumber for the tabletop. A piece of 1 2 plywood offers the best approach for determining the optimal size and shape of your tabletop because it lets you test and tweak various options in 3d. Cut your boards long.

Measure and mark the cut lines first then cut the lumber with a miter saw. Cut the plywood to the maximum size you might want set it up on something in the place where the finished table will go then live with it for a while. Subscribe now and never miss a new video. Find the flattest surface you can such as a.

If the miter saw is too small to make one cut cut halfway through then rotate the board and cut again step 2 arrange the tabletop on a flat surface. You may use construction grade lumber if you don t mind a rustic look but choose boards with as little warp as possible. Scott shaeffer of san juan carpentry shows us how to build table tops from mill cut logs. I showed walnut in the pictures above but usually to save quite a bit of money i will use 2x8s 2 10 or 2 12 construction lumber for my tops and just stain them my desired color.

Pick out table top boards. Then when you go to assemble your tabletop build it so one end of the boards are flush but the opposite ends are long and most likely uneven. I had no luck at the first big store i went to but luckily the second stop was better. In this video you ll learn how to build a solid wood table top from a pile of different size and type of lumber.

To see a more updated version of this t. This video is a bit dated. Good thing i measured before heading out. Keys to building forever flat tabletop skip to main content.

Then when you finishing joining your boards you can go back and trim the uneven long ends for a perfect tabletop. I use a woodworking method s. Detailed video on how i build a table top and the clever way i attach it to the base without using any screws of metal hardware. I need to find an appropriate piece of wood for my new table top.

Many of the smaller pieces of wood were 16 75 deep but i need at least 17.