Initiation: Sword-shaped, But Unique ! Wire Reel Table ! With Its Own Chairs!

We all know somebody or someone who has one, or you may even have one yourself. And if you come you'Ra in all probability using it equally a put over right now. But with a trifle work you can receive a pretty cool table. This idea came to me because my mom was in take of a good outside table. Just erst she received it, she said it was also nice to keep outside. So in real time it sits in her dining-room, with her Christmas tree upon information technology.

Step 1: Finding a Reel

Once you witness your bobbin you need to disassemble it. The spools are held together with long rods and nuts.

Depending on how fres your spool is this may be rather a simple or it might train a little cubitus grease.

Step 2: Sanding the Top!

Now these spools are made out of some pretty hardwood so you are going to need at least a 50 grit sandpaper to get things started. You deprivation to sand the side of the top that has the sweep through heads on that. And if there are any cop heads projected you need to take a puncher and a hammer and drive them down so they are underneath the wood. I recommend a belt sander for this. Now I started out with 50 grit and ended with 120 but, this is your project. And you can just keep departure to 220 grit, or until your happy with it. And the same thing can glucinium same about the put of legs.

Ill-trea 3: Determination Your Legs

Now I got lucky and found both senile Amish rough excision 4×4's. I do recommend 4×4's for the table legs because you are going to need something with girth to lag board top to. Once you have your legs you need to cut them to sized. The tabletop itself is 2 inches viscous so I need to slash my legs at 28 inches to give me an general altitude of 30.

Then you demand to do a 15 degree cut on 1 end of your legs. This will the bang out the legs. I ground this angle by just measureing another ( salt away bought set back ) outside table.

Step 4: Putting It Together

1. Pre drill the center of each leg where the lag bolt testament go. This will save you some time when fasten them up.

2. Install the lags through the original holes from where you took information technology apart.

3. While tightening the lag bolts pee trustworthy the legs stay Square to all opposite.

4. I added threaded rod to the legs for additive stability. ( I DID this because it was meant to be an unlikely put of ) But this step is facultative.

Step 5: Coating It Off

Find yourself a good stain that you like. ( follow the directions on rear end ). Once you have stained the whole table, take 220 grit Sandpaper and softly scuff the surface ( just the table top). Then apply a clear polyurethane over the table top it self, not the legs. And so wait for it to dry , the lightly sand the poly coat with 220 grit, and ingeminate. Keep adding polyurethane until your happy with your hold over.

Now you can see in my pictures that I added some rope to the peak of the table in the groove that was ready-made for the spools slats. By doing this it covered leading the head of the lag bolts and gave it a nice clean spirit. Also I took flat Joseph Black nebulise paint and sprayed any damage gauges, holes, this gave the table a bit more character.

Tools used: materials needful :

Standard socket kit. Sandpaper

Rap sander. (4) six inch immure bolts

Drill. Stain and polyurethane

Discoidal saw. Cheap effervesce brushes

Step 6: Extra Mile

Concurrently I was fashioning the put over I reclaimed 4 chairs which were in pretty rough shape. They were atomic number 47 at the time, I painted them black added new rubber feet, and replaced the old metal seats with seats I successful out of an gaga barn plank. And even hand lapidarian butt cheeks spots.

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