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  1. 30th July 2020, 01:02 PM #1
    Maeltroll
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    Default Reclaimed timber bar table

    Just sharing my most recent project - my 2100 x 800 bar table.

    Frame - I started by building the frame from 50x50mm square tube steel. I'm not that great with the welder so lots of grinding was required to clean it up and a bit of bog where needed. The frame is strong and everything is square. I just used a self priming spray paint - easy to touch up if needed later.

    Top - I was originally going to use pallet wood, but I found a local demolition yard with heaps of hardwood floor boards from old Queenslanders so I went that way instead. got them all home and started running them through the planner. I built a frame out of 90x35 pine framing for the boards to sit on and glued and brad-nailed them to the frame. Used a colored filler to clean everything up and added some Merbau trim to cover to frame. Finished the top with heaps of planning/sanding and finally a bunch of coats of satin wipe on poly which brought out some beautiful colors in the timber.

    Here's a few picks. (no idea why some are sideways?) Cheers

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    Some nice woodgrain there. Better looking than pallet wood.
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  4. 30th July 2020, 09:26 PM #3
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    Sweet looking bar table, now to christen it with a few coldies. Well done.
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    Welcome to the Forum, Maeltroll

    Nice work; you have brought out some really interesting grain patterns and colour.

    I also use a lot of recycled timber, so much great character, and would have done a couple of things differently:
    • Rather than bog the nail holes I drill them a little oversize and, using a plug cutter, make some plugs fro the same timber and glue them into the holes,
    • For large blemishes, holes, knots, sap pockets, splits, etc, I route out the offending area and glue in a fillet of the same timber (called a dutchman by shipwrights).


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    Here is an example in a celery top pine hearth surround about 10 years old. Five plugs to hide a blemish. Could also have used a small dutchman.
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