Making a Butcher Block Table

Our kitchen table gets a lot of action. Whenever my sister and I come home, we spend a lot of time eating, talking and especially doing homework there. I used to get mad at my sister for taking up the entire kitchen counter when she came home from college.

I made a butcher block table to do my studies one. It’s similar to the one we used in our former kitchen. I’m excited to continue with my portfolio, my studies and my studio — working at this table. It reminds me that not everything needs to be perfect. It also reminds me of home.

Pictures below, captions above.

Pine 2×6 and Poplar pallet sides joined and planed, then ripped into 1.25″ strips.

the tabletop glued and drying. The tabletop is 55″ by 24″

Finished product. The 28.5″ legs and roughy 1.5″ top make an ideal 30″ desk. I based it off of a desk in the Design Shop at LSU. The legs are made of Oak, and hold up everything in my backpack just fine.

I used 2 shorter pine pieces to scab together a frame long enough to span the entire bottom of the desk. Woodwork a la carte. The chair in the background folds up to take with you!

I’d like to add a triangle piece to stabilize the legs in time. They fit like an “L” around the corner of the frame. A closeup of the top. The holes are where the nails from the recycled lumber used to be. I like the knot hole in the middle. It reminds me of the need to not be a perfectionist!