Farm Table

OK wooddude is it Maysville Ga. or somewhere in Ala. some where ?? I don’t live far from Maysville and may want to come see you guys stuff one day. I love Heart Pine but it can be difficult to work with sometimes. I also use a lot of old red heart cypress reclaimed stuff.
Your projects lood great enjoy

-- Daniel of Due West

I’ve got a cousin who THINKS he’s an expert at construction (24yo) because he’s done it for less than a one year period of time. In all actuality, he’s better at deconstruction. As he was tearing out the walls of a room underneath were the original siding boards (8ft 1×10’s/8’s)that were over 100 years old. What did he do? He carelessly ripped them off after showing me and knowing I wanted them, and threw them out the window, let them lay outside and get rained and snowed on and essentially threw lots of other junk on them. A few weeks ago, as I noticed smoke coming from his back yard, I found out he was burning EVERYTHING in the pile, including those boards. I got there in time to rescue 4 after he’d burned 4-6 of them he didn’t know.

VERY long story short, I have those 4 boards in storage to use for something just like these tables on that site you listed.

I’m thinking that screwing things up from underneath would be the best bet, with cut nails or whatever from the top, if you really want that look. Otherwise I’d probably put screws in from the top and plug them.

-- Respect your shop tools and they will respect you - Ric

I’m in Dothan, AL henryj383. This is my first time working with heart pine. It is tough stuff.
I’m kinda leaning toward countersinking and screwing from underneath. The square heads may just end up being for looks. Although I would like to just drive those in, I’m not sure of the holding power.

Great Lookin tables

-- Jim, Kentucky

wooddude , hope all is going well, all of my mothers people were from Troy, and I lived in Jackson AL. for a while and Mobile. Any way I use the old groove in the side skirts, 1/8 or maybe 3/16 with a block that fits in the groove and screws to the bottom of the table, all of that is called something but what it does is allows the top to move some and not split anything.. or just use pocket screws. I have built them with breadboard ends and with the top boards tong and grooved but no glue, this old wood is something to work with but with a good oil finish there is nothing like it to me !
If you don’t understand this I will try again when I have not been up all night with a sick cat…lol
All of your stuff looks great keep it up!

-- Daniel of Due West

Thanks for the advice. I ended up using both screws and nails. I first secured the boards for the top together by ripping some strips (4) and screwing them to the boards. I screwed an additional strip to the inside of each of the end aprons, and then countersunk some screws to hold each of the boards down. I then nailed in the salvaged cut nails to the end aprons, and to the three runners in the middle of the table. Thanks again. Here is the table.