Making Table From Hardwood Flooring

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.

Making table from hardwood flooring.

Here are the steps we took to build the hardwood floor table top. Run all of the flooring through the machine on one of the long sides and one of the ends. Level soil or sand photo by kolin smith. 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.

Drag a piece of flooring tongue side down to even out the base for a brick path. 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. 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.

This project works best if the coffee table is sturdy enough to hold the heavy oak flooring. Table saw finishing sander wood filler wood glue 10 90 degree angle brackets we used these hardwood flooring pieces. See diagram above for dimensions. To determine the height.

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. Another function for this joint is seen in hardwood floors. If you don t already have hardwood flooring lying around from a previous project you ll have to buy about 25 sq. The frame around the tabletop will allow for a finished edge and be the perimeter guide for the flooring cuts.

My hubby carpenter cut the pieces of flooring to length. Build a coffee table photo by gerenme e getty. Even though construction adhesive is heavy duty make sure the surface is clean dry and free of oils for the best adhesion. It is a handy tool to have.

I told you about this table over a year ago in my post recent finds june 18 2012. In this video i take. He cut off all the outside edges removing either tongue or groove to give it a more finished look. Clean the surface of the existing table.

Set up the shaper or router table with a tongue and groove cutter. Creating your own hardwood floors tongue and groove joint. Http amzn to 29rkjkm click on the link to get your porter cable router with regular base and plunge base. Cut off the outside tongue and groove and stain the edges to match.