Dining table from trash wood

I don’t think much of anything is trash wood. I like the table a lot. Good job. I love rustic and/or beat up.

-- A carpenter takes an ugly, knotted, twisted piece of wood and makes something beautiful and pure from it. Jesus was and still is a carpenter, I am that piece of wood.

Nice table.

I have about ten pallets, 7 of which have been disassembled. Dang those nails are hard to pull out. Hope to come up with a project or two to make use of the free lumber! :-)

Note: If the nails have been cut off even with the oak runners, how do you dig ‘em out? I seem to get the pallets that have been rebuilt a time or two and they just cut the nails off and nail on new boards. UGH.

-- Handcrafted by Mike Henderson - Channelview, Texas

If they’ve been cut off even I just drive them in with a nail set. You have to be real careful about marking where the sunk nails are so you don’t try to cut through them later.

Damn I wish you wouldn’t have done that. I have a hard enought time throwing away any piece of wood bigger than 6”x2”, my shop has chunks of wood piled on every available flat surface in sight! Now, with you being the second person in a week to mention that some pallets are made of oak, i’m probably gonna have to move, get a bigger place! I guarantee i’ll find myself more or less dumpster-diving behind the local Wally-mart before the week is out! Helluva nice turnout tho, really. Good thinking!

Very Nice Work! Thanks For Posting!

Rick

-- ENJOY YOURSELVES GUYS!!!

I’ll vote with the rest of them. You really out did yourself!

-- Learning is like a door. Open it and there are hundreds more on the other side. Thanks for all the lessons!

Nice job. And great re-use!

And I feel your pain regarding dis-assembling pallets. No fun!

-- “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” ~ JRR Tolkien

A distressed dining table – you may have just created the next big home fashion craze! I believe that is a darn good looking table.

-- Raymond, Charlotte, NC -------- Demonstrate the difference!

When you and yours sit down to that dining room table for some family celebration or Thanksgiving dinner you will have a better idea of how fine that table really is and I suspect it will be more than good enough.

It looks like a fine job from here!

-- Chuck Murphy

table is saaweeet, should take more pics though. nice to see the old turned into something that nice. great job

Trash to treasure an alchemists dream!

I love the results you achieved! The distressed look is gorgeous!

-- "I never met a board I didn't like!"

Really nice table. I’ve been thinking building something like that with some scraps I saved from a couple of jobs I did a few year back. Thanks for sharing.

That looks awesome, just seeing that got me thinking, coffee tables and end tables would look great in that same style.

-- Measure once, cut twice..