Attaching Hairpin Legs To Table
Learn how to and how not to create a diy table with hairpin legs.
Attaching hairpin legs to table. Position the tip of the leg 1 back from the edge of the table. You can design your own table top here. Perhaps the easiest tabletop or desktop to work with is a wooden surface with metal hairpin legs we recommend wood screws for the project. Find the wood for your table.
Attach the hairpin legs with the screws provided. Instead hairpin legs attach directly to the underside of the table top. Visit our youtube page for inspiration and steps on how to pain. This post has two fantastic how to tutorials to follow and the end result is amazing.
Because there are no aprons and to keep the tabletop flat and supported think about adding wood cleats just inside the hairpin legs. Hairpin tables however have no aprons. This bracket has pre made holes in it to accommodate screws for the underside of the furniture. Casey and bridget each decided to create their own using hairpin legs.
Mark the positions of the holes in the mounting plate with a marker. The hairpin legs come with the bracket attached all as one piece of each hairpin leg. The beauty of hairpin legs is you can use them to create your own furniture using almost any kind of wood you can get your hands on from manmade boards to reclaimed wood such as old doors pallets floorboards cable reel tops to natural slabs. The end result was very similar but they took two very different paths.
It s as easy as it looks.