Description
Have some reclaimed wood? Need a rustic table top? In this episode of House of Hacks, Harley shows a simple way to make a DIY rustic table top using reclaimed wood. A nice thing about doing a rustic table top build is you don’t have to be terribly precise, which allows you to move quickly. The reclaimed wood table top made in this video was done in a couple hours. It’s primary purpose is for product photography, so it doesn’t need legs or finish. If you wanted to use this in a living space, you’d want to spend a bit more time on it to finish the edges, put a sealer on it and craft some legs.Subscribe for more DIY videos.
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Intro/Exit: "Hot Swing" by Kevin MacLeod at http://incompetech.com
Transcript
Today at the House of Hacks we're going to make a rustic table top that can be used for a variety of purposes.[Intro]
Hi Makers, Builders and Do-it-yourselfers.
Harley here.
A couple months ago, I helped by buddy Rich install a new backdrop wall in the studio that used some reclaimed wood.
You may have seen this in a couple of the videos last month.
Well, he wanted to create a table top to do product shoots with using some of this old reclaimed wood so it kind of matched the wood backdrop.
So today we're going to take some of that left over wood and combine it with some wood I scavanged from a built-in cabinet that was in the studio space before we tore it apart and combine that together to make this new table top.
In our case we want the table top to be portable so we're not going to put any legs or anything on it and just set it on available surfaces when we need to set it up.
But if you want to do something like this, you could use it as a end table or a coffee table or something of that nature.
Let's get started.
I first vacuumed all the loose dirt, sawdust and miscellaneous things off the fence wood.
Then I sorted the boards into an order that looked nice.
Next I glued and nailed each board onto the plywood substrate.
I trimmed the uneven edges off with a circular saw.
And gave it a final vacuuming to get all the sawdust off.
So this is what the table looks like setup in the studio.
And here's a test product shot using it.
If you're going to use this idea in a living space, you'd probably want to finish it off with some sort of Verathane or something just to seal it in.
Keep the splinters out of your hands. That sort of thing.
And you probably also want to put a edge banding around it to just trim it off and finish it.
For the purposes of this project, we don't need to do any of that.
The way it is is plenty sufficient because it'll never be in an image and you won't see it.
Until next time, go make something.
Perfection's not required.
Fun is!
