Making Table From Hardwood Flooring

Build a coffee table photo by gerenme e getty.

Making table from hardwood flooring.

Set up the shaper or router table with a tongue and groove cutter. Level soil or sand photo by kolin smith. 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. Start by having the hardware lumber store cut your plywood to size.

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. I told you about this table over a year ago in my post recent finds june 18 2012. Here are the steps we took to build the hardwood floor table top.

Select the good side of each one. Even though construction adhesive is heavy duty make sure the surface is clean dry and free of oils for the best adhesion. My hubby carpenter cut the pieces of flooring to length. It is a handy tool to have.

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. If you don t already have hardwood flooring lying around from a previous project you ll have to buy about 25 sq. To determine the height.

In this video i take. 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. Cut off the outside tongue and groove and stain the edges to match. Popular uses for this joint are in the creation of doors panels and table tops.

This project works best if the coffee table is sturdy enough to hold the heavy oak flooring. Drag a piece of flooring tongue side down to even out the base for a brick path. Add hardwood flooring as a tabletop to a coffee table that is missing it s original table top. 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.

See diagram above for dimensions. Creating your own hardwood floors tongue and groove joint. 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.