Find the wood for your table.
Attaching hairpin legs to table.
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.
This bracket has pre made holes in it to accommodate screws for the underside of the furniture.
Visit our youtube page for inspiration and steps on how to pain.
It s as easy as it looks.
Perhaps the easiest tabletop or desktop to work with is a wooden surface with metal hairpin legs we recommend wood screws for the project.
Position the tip of the leg 1 back from the edge of the table.
View beneath the tabletop.
The perfect side table can be hard to find.
Mark the positions of the holes in the mounting plate with a marker.
Learn how to and how not to create a diy table with hairpin legs.
Casey and bridget each decided to create their own using hairpin legs.
Because there are no aprons and to keep the tabletop flat and supported think about adding wood cleats just inside the hairpin legs.
You can design your own table top here.
Instead hairpin legs attach directly to the underside of the table top.
Hairpin tables however have no aprons.
This post has two fantastic how to tutorials to follow and the end result is amazing.
Please note that the screws provid ed are the proper length for 3 4 to 1 25 thick tops.