Woodworking Thread

To make this table - I started with a wooden pallet that I recovered from the dumpster.

I cut the pallet up - removing the rot and the nails.

Then - I ran all the wood through a jointer and planer.

Cut the wood down to plan specs.

(I tapered the legs to get a touch of art)

Notice the big knot - I worked with it, instead of around it.

Voila - you get a table with character.

bailey bud wrote: Take a look at what you can do with a wooden pallet recovered from a dumpster.

(sorry rockdoc - nowhere near your level of talent - this is poor man's wood-working!)

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Good for you and never apologize for your talent. How funny. Do you know I did the same thing (using wooden pallets for lumber) when I first set up a shop while in Slidell, LA? I made toys out of them, but quickly discovered that all the embedded sand grains in pallets were hell on my equipment. Did you run into similar challenges?

My big challenge --- pallet wood is a little on the brittle side. The pocket holes busted the apron three times - making me go back to the drawing board to build another apron.

The jointer didn't really get along with this wood. It was really hard to get a nice clean cut (the grain was not in an ideal orientation).

For just $50 - I could have bought 30 bd ft of alder --- and I just might do that, next time.