Corey Pelton
07-20-2018, 9:48 PM
Hello!
Quick question for you guys. I have a 52" x 52" table I'm building. It has a 3/4" wide 1/2" deep rabbet running inside the rails for the table bottom, and I need about 51" square bottom to fill it. Since the sizing is larger than my sheet of 3/4" mahogany plywood, do you think I could rip that and insert a solid piece of mahogany between it, and connect them with dominos? Or, I could add a solid wood border around the ply and do it that way, also using dominos.
Do you think it would be structurally sound, either way? I'm thinking it just might work. If all else fails, I could just slat it with several pieces of wood, but since I have the ply already, I'd rather use that and save the other wood for something else. My biggest concerns are it baring weight and the glue bonding. Also, I don't have any room underneath to make a braced support. So it will need to be able to support its own weight, plus what ever is on top of it, which shouldn't be too heavy (board games, a book or 2)
Quick question for you guys. I have a 52" x 52" table I'm building. It has a 3/4" wide 1/2" deep rabbet running inside the rails for the table bottom, and I need about 51" square bottom to fill it. Since the sizing is larger than my sheet of 3/4" mahogany plywood, do you think I could rip that and insert a solid piece of mahogany between it, and connect them with dominos? Or, I could add a solid wood border around the ply and do it that way, also using dominos.
Do you think it would be structurally sound, either way? I'm thinking it just might work. If all else fails, I could just slat it with several pieces of wood, but since I have the ply already, I'd rather use that and save the other wood for something else. My biggest concerns are it baring weight and the glue bonding. Also, I don't have any room underneath to make a braced support. So it will need to be able to support its own weight, plus what ever is on top of it, which shouldn't be too heavy (board games, a book or 2)