Building A Wood Table Top

Then protect the finished wood from weather and.

Building a wood table top.

If you want to make things even easier use pre cut lumber for the top. Use up scrap wood and your free afternoon building a simple tabletop from 2x4 lumber. In this video you ll learn how to build a solid wood table top from a pile of different size and type of lumber. Then when you finishing joining your boards you can go back and trim the uneven long ends for a perfect tabletop.

Subscribe now and never miss a new video. Hardwoods are fairly expensive depending on where you live and what s readily available. Want to make it memorable. 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.

Follow ana on instagram. With reclaimed wood you may need to do a little more prep work to get it into good usable shape. These plans include cut lists material lists diagrams photos and written instructions so you can tackle the project and come out with a great looking handmade table at the end. You could even recreate this design using 1x 2x and 4x material from the home center.

Pick out table top boards. Cut your boards a little long. Building a farmhouse table is a fairly straightforward project that even a beginner can handle. Apply not one but a trio of stains.

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.