Questions tagged [tabletop]
Use for any Question regarding tabletops, including creation and maintenance.
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Ruggedizing eating table for dough-working operations
I've built this table as well as quickly sanded and lightly stained the top. It works well for a platform to eat from but is mostly unsuitable for preparing food, particular dough kneading (and ...
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Flexing in middle of 3/4" walnut table top
I am building a table made out of 3/4" walnut. Right now, I have it on saw horses but will soon be attaching legs via cleats. The problem I am having now is that I'm noticing a bit of flex in the ...
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Adding finish to a painted wooden table
So I have a table made and I was told that they applied a water based paint over it because I requested it to be black. The wood they used is either palochina or mahogany. As of right now, it isn't ...
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Joinery method for 3/4 Hardwood
I want to build a desk tabletop with the surface being maple, but 8/4 maple was quite expensive so I'm opting for half the thickness. However, this narrows down the options for joining the boards to ...
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Will my table top hold 300 lbs?
I have never made anything out of wood before. This is all new to me.
I want to build a computer desk table top. My goal is to just make the table top right now and then purchase some electric legs ...
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Warped Monkeypod Desktop
I purchased this monkeypod piece a couple weeks ago. It is 7.5 ft x 2.5 ft x 2 inches thick. It is composed of two pieces glued together. My plan was to use it as a desktop but I’ve noticed since I ...
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Cut down a veneered table top
I'm new to this, so thanks for your patience.
I have a maple-veneer dining table that is about a foot too long for the space I have but it is otherwise about perfect and a gorgeous maple and design. ...
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Where to get a brace like this?
I took two from an old table I bought retail. Need two more though. No idea where to get something like this.
https://imgur.com/a/inY202M
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How to Fix Wood Tabletop (Finish stripped off by bottom of bug spray can left on overnight)
After leaving a bug spray can on my wooden table overnight, I went to remove it the following morning. When I did the wood seemed stuck to the bottom of the can. As I removed it, the finish was taken ...
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Removing a chemical or food stain on oiled wood table
I made a kitchen table from oak wood, and oiled the surface. It's a great looking piece and I'm very proud of it. Yesterday I must have stained it with a cleaning product, I unfortunately do not know, ...
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Why does my teak dining table have splits?
My dining table has a split, for which I recently posted a question asking how to repair it. I received a number of suggestions to post details of the table's construction, especially how the top is ...
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Herringbone maple tabletop warped
I flopped a tabletop glueup. Clamped only from above, table saw was .5 degrees off. And the 32 pieces on each side create a "bowl" in the middle of about 1/4in. Ouch. What can I do , if anything, ...
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Fixing table crack and ridge
I have a 5' square dining table made of teak. The tabletop appears to be made of glued-together boards 3" - 5" wide. A couple of these boards have come apart, and now I have a gap almost 1/8" running ...
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Are these blotches supposed to be there? If not how do I remove them?
I’ve got a river table I’m working on made out of MonkeyPod and black epoxy.
I’m sanding it and noticed that there are blotchy looking areas. (I’m calling them blotchy, I don’t know what they are.)
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Designing legs for large larch tabletop
I want to make a wide table. For this purpose I bought a larch tabletop with dimensions: 40 x 800 x 2000 millimetres (1.6" x 31.5" x 78.7"). This tabletop according to my computations is about 50kg (...
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Mounting method for tabletop
I'm working on designing a table for my kitchen (no A/C for moisture control) and I'm not entirely sure what the best method for securing it would be, and if I should even bother accounting for ...
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How to correct water based stain dried streaky
I am staining a wood table which I believe might be oak. The table has been sanded to 150 grit and pre-conditioned with water based Minwax product.
Last night we applied water based Minwax stain. ...
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Can I use #0000 steel wool for final polish of water-based polyurethane?
I'm finishing my first woodworking project — a tabletop that I hope to mount on a sit/stand desk mechanism.
I've stained and applied 4 coats of Varthane water-based polyurethane in matte finish. I ...
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Threaded inserts
I have a pedestal dinette table and the top is held in place by 4 threaded inserts into wood the screwed in place. My problem is the threaded inserts will not hold and before you know it the table ...
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Table top attachment with aprons on only two sides
I'm building a small computer/writing desk. It will have a solid top, so I'm figuring out how to attach it to the frame to allow for wood movement.
I planned on using tabletop fasteners (Z clips), ...
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Glue-up for butcher block-style countertop
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I am working on a butcher block style countertop / tabletop, and am wondering how best to glue the wood together. The countertop is unfinished maple hardwood floor, with the tongue / ...
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Sap problem on the top and shelf of an outside bar
About a month ago I built and painted an outside bar. I used wood planks from Lowe’s for the top and shelf. I sanded, painted, and then used poly acrylic on the top and shelf.
Now the sap is coming ...
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Looking at attaching metal legs to a table top
Basically I have some standard metal tubing square legs which I want to affix to a table base. Hopefully the pics attached below show my idea but I am thinking of attaching a wood block on the ...
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Filling crack in walnut table top
I'm building a table with the walnut top shown below. (Sorry for the blurry photos).
I think I should fill this 8" long crack. I need to decide how. I'm considering cleaning up the edges and cutting/...
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Support for solid wood tabletop with galvanized tube frame
I need to build a few workbenches for my office at work. They won't be used for true "shop" work but will need to be fairly strong, as there will be equipment and tools on them. I am planning on ...
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Edge joining three 6' 2x10" and 4 sturdy hairpin legs for a dining table, is it sturdy enough?
I'm planning to do my first dining table. I know most of my research tells me that well clamped glued edges can support the table.
The thing is, I plan to use hairpin legs so the weight will be ...
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Repair / Restore Veneer Covered Table
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I own a small couch table with a pattern made of veener on top (picture 1). As far as I can tell, the tabletop consists of at least three layers:
Massive wood
A layer of thin veneer
An ...
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How to Joint a board [duplicate]
Here's the conundrum: I have 5 3.6 meter boards I'm trying to make a long worktop bench out of and I want to glue them up side by side. This is rough construction grade spruce with loads of knots.
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How might I fix wobble in my studio desk build?
This is my first major woodworking projects and I'm having a bit of trouble. I have built this custom music studio desk and it keeps wobbling side to side.
It does have a lot of weight on it so it ...
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Reinforcing chipboard
I'm not a woodworker of any kind but I am building a desk from a laminate kitchen worktop measuring 3000x600x38mm (L x W x T) but I only want the legs on the side. I don't want to have to put an ...
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Wood expansion vs. steel
I am contemplating a design for a tabletop which would be made up of a series of oak strips, bolted from end to end using long threaded rod. It might be approx 10' (3 m) long. Using several rods, ...
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Finishing Red Cedar Tabletop
I'm currently in the process of building a red cedar tabletop with laminated live edge slabs. Thickness should be around 7/4. However, I'm unsure what to use for finishing it. Given the wood is so ...
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Metal framed wood table, will expansion be an issue?
I've got a good deal of wood scraps from other projects laying about and am thinking of making a colored epoxy table, something like this:
Where the blocks are my scraps, the area between will be ...
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Does the edge profile of a tabletop really matter?
I'm building a dining table and I try to follow the "form follows function" philosophy. I need to decide what type of edge to put on my table (round over, bullnose, ogee, beveled, etc). I know I at ...
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Caster/slide for tabletop tray
I'm in search of ideas on this one. I'm looking to build a unit that sits on my electronics workbench that will hold a keyboard, mouse and monitor. I want the unit to easily slide off to the side of ...
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Does a “butcher block” glue-up behave like quarter sawn?
I'm building a new workbench and bought some maple for the top. I plan to rip the boards into strips and glue the face grains together so that the edge grain is exposed up top. This allows for a very ...
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Should I use spacing between boards on a chunky oak table?
I am building a solid oak (dried) table of 4 boards of 180 x 20 x 5 cm. This will stay in my home office in UK so temperature ranging between 18-28 degrees and humidity 40-60%.
This is going to be a ...
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Polyurethane finish
I have an oak coffee table with several coats of polyurethane. It has cured for several months. When I rubbed out the finish I can still see surface scratches in bright sunlight. How do I get rid ...
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Tabletop attachment apron slots buttons tightness
Thinking about attaching a workbench tabletop (800mm x 600mm) made out of a 40mm oak panel (or probably 2 20mm oak panels glued together if I cannot find a 40mm one) like on the image below with ...
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How should I attached table top to crossed aprons?
The aprons are 1" wide and 3.5" tall. The table is made from 3 1x8 boards. I'd like to figure out a way to attach the top that accounts for wood movement. Would those figure eight washers or cleats ...
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Name for threaded workbench receptacles?
I was given a portable wooden workbench with several holes drilled into it, and on the inside of each of these holes is what I would call a "screw receptacle"; essentially metal, threaded "female" ...
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Reusable Desk design: how to join pieces?
I just saw this question about how to join pieces of a bed frame in order to dispose and reassemble it without damaging the wood. I want to pose a similar question about a registration studio desk. ...
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Is wood-glue enough or should I use extra support?
I am building a 2' x 2' bar table, which will be either supported by a single metal base (like this) or by wooden legs at the corners.
For the table-top, I'm planning on using Poplar from Lowe's in ...
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Can these tree tunks be used for a small table?
The other day I found these two sections of a tree trunk in the street. So I'm wondering, can they be prepared to be used as some type of rustic stump table?
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Tabletop inlay design sources
I am planning in making a tabletop, with rounded corners, and want to decorate the top with some grooves that I could make with the router using the edge guide.
Something like this (excuse my drawing ...
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How can I fix this wobbly desk
I have built a very simple desk out of laminated panels; two legs connected with a back board held by L brackets.
Problem is it is still quite wobbly horizontally and I was hoping the back board ...
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moisture after first layer of stain.. now what?
my question is about how to save my table!!! Im doing my first project. I sanded the table yesterday, applied pre-stain/ conditioner and then my first layer of stain. I went to check it to see if it ...
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Can this table support 150 KG?
Ich currently have a 60l aquarium on my cupboard which weighs approx 85 kgs. I want to upgrade to a 100 liter aquarium which will weigh approx 140 - 150 kgs and wanted to be on the safe side and ask ...
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Stain not adhering to wood
I purchased a table from a reputable furniture store and received it about 2 weeks ago. Everything seemed OK with the table upon receipt.
However, on 11/1, I noticed the "stains" (or lack of stain) ...
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Designing and Building a Through-Leg Table
A popular, modern style of table has the legs going through the table top, so that the end grain of the leg is exposed. Of course, the problem with this design immediately becomes the expansion and ...
