Preparing the wood and making the table top

Making the table top

In order of appearance:

Wood must be sawn taking off top layer and leaving at 90 degree angles.

Cutting the wood to size. I chose 40mm X 15mm because I liked the textured look of different grains put together.

You then have to order them, I strangely put the three different species together before deciding to only use the pine and eucalypt alternating the pattern between them, the better sides on top and worse on the under side.

You then have to chock up a frame using other timber pieces to rest the table top on for glueing. This is very important to get right. You must clamp it from two directions, not too tight and not too loose as so it doesn’t bow or fall apart.

Then leave over night before unclamping and taking off he frame.

I decided to leave my tabletop at the longest possible length because I was proud of it and felt it represented the most interesting grains.