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So building a table we'll need some wood. Normally when I need a table at my house I
use scrap wood that I find cut down to the different sizes that way it's cheaper for
me. If I'm going to build a table I want it to be cheaper than going into IKEA and getting
one of their pieces of furniture. What I've done is I found this nice thick piece of plywood.
This is inch and eighth, it's going to give me a nice thick look to the table top. We'll
need wood for the legs. I found also these nice 2 inch by 2 inch pieces of wood for the
table legs. We're going to create an apron and what I've selected for that is this pine
and it's 1x4 material. Now, what's interesting about the 1x4 is when the olden days when
we had a lot of trees everything was 1 inch thick by 4 inches wide. Nowadays we're down
to 3/4 and 3 1/2 inches. So it's not exactly 1x4 anymore but that's the way it is, less
trees less wood. We got different sizes but still we're sticking with the 1x4 material.
We'll also need some wood glue and that's pretty much the product. Next I show you the
hardware that we'll need to assemble the table.