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.

Making table from hardwood flooring.

Even though construction adhesive is heavy duty make sure the surface is clean dry and free of oils for the best adhesion. To determine the height. Clean the surface of the existing table. Creating your own hardwood floors tongue and groove joint.

In this video i take. See diagram above for dimensions. 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. This project works best if the coffee table is sturdy enough to hold the heavy oak 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. It is a handy tool to have. 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. The frame around the tabletop will allow for a finished edge and be the perimeter guide for the flooring cuts.

Table saw finishing sander wood filler wood glue 10 90 degree angle brackets we used these hardwood flooring pieces. Fit together planks and secure from underneath with scrap wood braces. Add hardwood flooring as a tabletop to a coffee table that is missing it s original table top. 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.

Another function for this joint is seen in hardwood floors. Build a coffee table photo by gerenme e getty. Set up the shaper or router table with a tongue and groove cutter. Popular uses for this joint are in the creation of doors panels and table tops.

Cut off the outside tongue and groove and stain the edges to match. Start by having the hardware lumber store cut your plywood to size. Level soil or sand photo by kolin smith. I told you about this table over a year ago in my post recent finds june 18 2012.

My hubby carpenter cut the pieces of flooring to length. Select the good side of each one. Drag a piece of flooring tongue side down to even out the base for a brick path. Here are the steps we took to build the hardwood floor table top.