Make your own table tutorial

Making a Simple Table from Wooden Boards

First of all, design the sketch. Design sketches to solve a few key problems:

1. Size. Make a good length, good width, good height, this is the most basic and important data.

2. What it looks like. Design the appearance, but also design each component. The choice of how the parts are connected to each other.

3. How to make each part. You can't show it on the drawing, but you need to know how to make it. If you can't make it by yourself, can you buy it, and if it's difficult to make it, you may have to redesign it.

4. When considering the difficulty of making a part, a key factor is that the size of the material we buy (mostly wood) may not be just right, and this will also affect the difficulty of making the part. For example, I would like to buy wood that is 80 centimeters wide, so that I only need to buy 180 centimeters long, and the tabletop is done. Don't worry, it's almost never for sale. Trees with a diameter of 80 cm or more are no longer civilian grade. So we would buy 20 cm wide, or narrower wood to put together an 80 cm wide table top.

Then comes the hands-on part.

1, Preparation of materials and tools

Now prepare tools and auxiliary materials such as boards, screwdrivers, hardware wrenches, wire, metal brackets, latex paint, varnish, brushes and paper.

2, cutting wood, table legs

According to the shape and size of the design drawings, ask the carpenter to cut the template and table legs. 4 square wooden strips, 4 long wooden boards, 8 metal brackets, 1 big wooden board.3, assemble the table

3, binding the table

Assemble with 4 square wooden strips and 4 long wooden boards, fix and install the table legs all right. Shake it to see if it is solid. If the table legs are solid, you can lay the large planks on and secure them.

4, sanding tabletop

Sandpaper tabletop, the uneven part of the template are smoothed.

5, desktop painting

Tabletop sandpaper sanding is completed, you can put the pre-prepared latex paint on. When painting a thin layer of brush, do not brush too thick, otherwise the paint will look unnatural. 6, brush oil

When the latex paint is dry, you can use fine sandpaper and then a little bit of sanding, which can make the desktop smoother. Finally, brush on a layer of oil, which can make the desktop become more bright and nice.