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

This will feel like deja vu to some of you that the last post about the first gate leg table I did. I had two of them marked at $5 at our yard sale yet neither sold. I always feel bad for the stuff left behind and it some how re-invigorates me to find the time to give things a second chance.

Here is a good look at both the tables but the front one is
the one that took me much longer to makeover 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 so gluing and
clamping would take days. Both tables were roadside trash/treasure. Someone had probably left them outdoors
exposed to the weather from the state they were in.

This table had a shelf on the bottom and was just so
pretty. I am a sucker for vintage wood.

I unscrewed the the top boards and started the
long process of gluing and clamping all the lifting veneer on
the bottom self. 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 recycled 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.