Table of Contents
- 1Description & About the measurements
- 2A pictorial summary
- 3A pictorial summary continued
- 4Part identification & The plan drawings
- 5Shopping list and cutting list
- 6Instructions - Stacking and cutting the pieces
- 7Making the bench frame
- 8Fixing the seat boards and the legs
- 9Assembling the table frame
- 10Fixing the table top
- 11Making the extensions
- 12Fitting the extensions
- 13Job finished!
Fixing the table top
Step 13: Add the table-top boards
The table-top boards [a] can now be fixed onto the table frame.
FixTo secure with nails or screws. the two side boards first (one at each side of the table frame) ensuring that the overhangs are equal, then put in the three intermediate boards, evenly spaced, and fix them in place.
Sure – you can use screws if you like, but flat nailA short nail with a large flat head used for securing roofing felt, plasterboard, sheet metal to wood etc. heads look good on a rustic sort of table (I think, anyway).
Step 14: Strengthen the table-top
Turn the table upside down and fix a couple of blocks of woodTimber, lumber. The hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees (strengtheners) across the middle of the table on the underside. Glue and nail the strengtheners in place. They can be practically any stock size, whatever is left laying around.
The strengtheners will help prevent the top of the table from becoming uneven, i.e. keeping all of the table-top boards on the same planeA flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane). Any flat, two-dimensional surface..
Step 15: Finished table without extensions
Well that’s the table (without the extensions) and the two bench seats finished.
Sometimes a stand alone picnic table with separate seats is better that an all-in-one unit, as it allows far more options as to what can be done with it (seating, positioning, one-seat or two seat, etc.)
The table and benches came in handy for me on a following project, as three work benches. But that’s another story.
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