Making Table From Hardwood Flooring

Select enough hardwood flooring boards so that the accumulated width of them together exceed the width and length of the desired table top by at least 2 inches.

Making table from hardwood flooring.

If you don t already have hardwood flooring lying around from a previous project you ll have to buy about 25 sq. Fit together planks and secure from underneath with scrap wood braces. To determine the height. Even though construction adhesive is heavy duty make sure the surface is clean dry and free of oils for the best adhesion.

Clean the surface of the existing table. Http amzn to 29rkjkm click on the link to get your porter cable router with regular base and plunge base. Popular uses for this joint are in the creation of doors panels and table tops. Start by having the hardware lumber store cut your plywood to size.

The frame around the tabletop will allow for a finished edge and be the perimeter guide for the flooring cuts. He cut off all the outside edges removing either tongue or groove to give it a more finished look. It is a handy tool to have. Set up the shaper or router table with a tongue and groove cutter.

3 techniques to create your hardwood floor panels the tongue and groove joint has proved itself over centuries to be very simple clean and strong. See diagram above for dimensions. Creating your own hardwood floors tongue and groove joint. Adjust the fence and cutter height using a scrap piece of material adjust the cutter height and fence position until you have it set up correctly to run your flooring.

Add hardwood flooring as a tabletop to a coffee table that is missing it s original table top. I told you about this table over a year ago in my post recent finds june 18 2012. Here at real antique wood we mill our own reclaimed wood flooring planks and are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to use the material to manufacture. Cut off the outside tongue and groove and stain the edges to match.

Drag a piece of flooring tongue side down to even out the base for a brick path. Level soil or sand photo by kolin smith. In this video i take. Build a coffee table photo by gerenme e getty.

This project works best if the coffee table is sturdy enough to hold the heavy oak flooring. Another function for this joint is seen in hardwood floors. Here are the steps we took to build the hardwood floor table top. Select the good side of each one.