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Why spend multi-hundreds of dollars on a plywood dining table where you can make your own solid wood table for ~$100?
This project took me about 1 week to construction and 2 weeks spent waiting on polyurethane to dry.
Tools:
Table Saw
Miter SAw
Router (if you have a router table, even better)
Nailer
Drill
Kreg Pocket Hole Jig
Sander
1. determine the size of your table. I highly recommend to draw it out so you can plan on the amount of wood you need.
2. Start off by making a cross, make sure the joint is 90 degrees, otherwise you’ll be filling lots of gaps. Make sure the cross covers larger than the middle round piece. Find the center point of the cross
3. Fill in the "triangles" to the sides of your cross, essentially making somewhat of a square
4. Find the center point of the cross. This will be used with an axle to turn the square into a perfect circle
5. Add an axle to the center point. There are two ways to make a perfectly round circle:
A) mount a cutting tool with a long board, attach the other end of the board to the center axle, rotate and cut. You can use either the jig saw or a router with flush trim bit to do it this way
B) mount your tool somewhere, and then rotate the work piece via the center axle. You can use tools such as router + router table or a band saw for this type of cuts. If you are patient enough, you can even use a table saw. just need to slowly raise the cutting blade
6. To make the outer ring, start off by making an octagon.
7. make a hole in the center of the octagon where the size of the hole matches with the round surface you made in earlier step
8. secure the middle round piece to the hole of the octagon with screws or wood glue
9. Adjust the radius from the center axle and use the same cutting method, cut the octagon into a round piece using the same axle you used before
10. Sand, stain, apply polyurethane. highly recommend to get multiple coats of polyurethane to make sure the surface can handle the daily use.
11. Add the surface to the base. The base is usually much easier to make compare to the round table surface.
Link to more pictures by steps:
http://cn.dingsworkshop.com/solid-wood-round-dining-table/
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