Making a round base for table - many questions

[Jeff]

Re: Making a round base for table - many questions. Paint?

Ok. I'm going to the extreme other end of your design ideas and I understand that you folks are on a budget. By the time you spend all of that piddling and fussing with that cardboard crap you'll be further in debt.

1. Trash that $6 cardboard cylinder junk that won't work from square one for a 54" diameter top.

2. Consider these metal hairpin legs and fasten them in a 24" diameter circular pattern to your new 54" diameter wood table top.

https://www.amazon.com/Hairpin-Meta...srs=14698790011&ie=UTF8&qid=1468341493&sr=8-2

They bastardize your original design but it's little lighter looking, open, and airy. The legs look spindly (1/2"d)

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[junquecol]

Re: Making a round base for table - many questions. Paint?

Baltic birch plywood is 60" X 60". It would yield a circle a tiny bit less than 60" Somewhere in my stash of useless knowledge, I have VCR tape of NYW when he made gate leg table, using plywood and solid wood edging.

 

[Warren]

The top can be made of baltic birch plywood since is is usually 60x60 inches square. Then use same veneer on the base. Cutting a circle using a trammel attached to a router would do the job.

 

[DIYAnnette]

Thank you Gritz, great idea.

Jeff - I do like the pin leg look, but I still want to try this 'wood base' project first. I wanted to fit 6 chairs around without a leg in the way.Thanks for suggesting. I need to do it cheap but because it's a big challenge, but I'm kind of excited to figure the big base out!

Junquecol - yes, glad to hear about the plywood - That sounds like I could do the top myself now.

Warren -yes, I like this birch plywood... I can work with that and try my veneering/laminate skills!