4 the love of wood: HOW TO BUILD A CONSOLE TABLE

This will feel like deja vu to some of you that read last weeks post about the first rePurposing of a gate leg table I

did. I had two of them marked at $5 at our yard sale yet neither of them sold. I always feel bad for the stuff left

behind and it some how re-invigorates

me to find the time to rePurpose them

myself. This article is about the second

table that got a new life.

Below is a good look at both the tables but the front one is
the one that took me much longer to rePurpose because it
needed a lot more patience. The veneer on all the flat boards was lifting at the edges and on both sides of each piece. The fold downs also had warped and the gluing and clamping was going to take days.

If you are interested in the first article I wrote about

the table tucked in back you can find it here.

http://4theloveofwood.blogspot.ca/2015/06/how-to-make-sofa-table-from-gate-leg.html

The front table had a shelf on the bottom and had was just a
bit prettier. I unscrewed the the top boards and started the
long process of gluing and clamping all the lifting veneer on
the bottom self. Below I'm using a kitchen butter knife to get
the glue between the layers.

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While the glue was setting up I start to count all the

hinges I got from these rePurposed tables.

NICE SCORE!

I reattached the original top board after it was fixed and I left
all the old paint splatters and left over varnish on it when I
painted it with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. I used a 220 grit
sand paper very purposefully on the top to show all the
unique levels of age it has.