How to make a folding wooden table with your own hands

Sometimes, it's better and cheaper to make a folding wooden table with your own hands than buying a ready-made wooden table. In this case, it is possible to specify the necessary dimensions and use high-quality materials. A rugged wooden dining table will solve the problem of ordering space and free space in the kitchen or living room.

Very comfortable and popular in the apartment will be a desk book. He perfectly copes with the function of a large dining table and in the assembled state takes up very little space. For the manufacture of such a table with their own hands requires very little time and materials.

Sliding dining table made of wood

Finishing and preparation for assembling of folding dining table

1. Cloth for countertop folding table is better to buy ready-made. It will take three components. Two MDF sheets with a size of 450x750 mm and one removable part of 400x750 mm with a standard thickness of 18 mm. Open the size can be right in the store. Tamzhe can buy a melamine faced flexible tape for the color of the table top. The edge to the end is welded with a hot iron and is sharpened with a sharp knife for gypsum board.
2. You can order a table top made of veneered wooden boards. Wood is suitable for any - pine, beech or more expensive hard varieties. In this case the countertop must be additionally treated with stain and lacquer. The legs are made of a bar 45x45 mm. In the carpentry workshop you will be pierced by them. The lower dimension can be set to 25x25 mm. The approximate height of the table is 735 mm, and the height of the legs in this case is 715 mm.
3. For the frame and the base of the folding table will require plywood 20 mm thick and boards - 2 pcs.on sidewalls from the end 830x120 mm and 4 pcs.on the longitudinal sides of the frame 420x120 mm. You will also need wood screws( 4x50 and 4x16), dowels and 8x30 and a metal furniture corner 30x30.For the table layout mechanism, get the drawout guides. These are used in drawers. It will take two right and two left guides 300 mm long.
4. Before assembling it is recommended to polish all the parts, impregnate them with stain and open with varnish. After the varnish has dried, the parts are again sanded with fine emery paper and re-opened with varnish.

Assembling a folding dining table

1. A rectangular frame frame is assembled from the slats, end pieces and straps are fastened, oriented at the extreme level of the side walls. The legs are fixed with screws at the corners of the box, reinforced with metal corners and finally clamped with screeds.
2. Sliding parts of the countertop are exposed on the plane of the frame, serifs are made on the mating surfaces and dowel holes are drilled, the standard dowel diameter is 8 mm, the hole must not be deeper than 25 mm. Install the dowels on the glue PVA in staggered order. Dowels on the middle table top are set, focusing on the halves of the main countertop.
3. Of the boards intended for the countertop, two U-shaped frames are assembled. On them and the skeleton base are attached the skids of the guides for the sliding mechanism. Skids are right and left-handed, pay attention to it. Divide them into two parts, the wide guide is attached to the side walls of the stationary frame, and the narrow guides to the P-shaped moving part of the table tops. Further, the runners snap into the grooves and the ease of running is checked. On the axes of the guides there are adjusting screws.

Table - book with their own hands

The table - book also belongs to folding tables for transformers. This is a very convenient and practical version of the folding table. Make it yourself you can in one day, it does not take up much space in the assembled state and can be used as a full-fledged folding table.

1. Under the drawing( see photo) is done the detailing. For the manufacture of the book table, it is better to use the chipboard. Open the workpiece can be in the building materials store, so the end sections will be much smoother and cleaner. For the countertop you will need two plates measuring 70.5x80 cm and one 35x80 cm. All moving parts, including the sliding support legs, are attached to the piano loops.
2. The optimum height of the table is 75 cm. Based on this size, a bar of 4х4 cm, a 2x4 cm rack for legs and a frame of the transformer table is prepared. For sidewalls, two small boards with a size of 35x73 cm are cut from the chipboard.
3. The end faces are decorated with a melamine edge of the surface of the countertop, matched to the color. Edge 2 cm wide is applied to the end of the table top and ironed with a red hot iron. Protruding surpluses of the welded edge are removed with a sharp mounting knife.
4. The main frame frame is assembled for confirmations. A hole of 5 mm, according to the marking, is drilled through the through holes in the planar boards, and in the end plates to a depth of 50 mm. On the planar holes, a chamfer is removed with a 8 mm drill, in order for the confirmation head to be flush with the plane of the chipboard. Then it is masked by a special plastic plug. For the stability of the frame box, corners or furniture metal corners are installed at the corners.
5. The frame is placed face-to-face on the floor and a full piano loop is attached to both sides of the whole width on both sides with small screws. To it, the right and left wing of the table top are fed, and also fixed with screws from the back side.
6. Before starting to make the legs for the desk of the book, the beam and slats should be sanded, blurred under the main color of the table and varnished. From a bar of 4x4 cm, a pair of U-shaped legs is made. For durability and stability from the slats 2x4 cm, an oblique diagonal or straight cross bar and fixing rods are inserted. One of the vertical sides of the leg is fixed to the box of the frame by a piano loop.

For better safety, on all supporting surfaces it is possible to fill small plastic heels. There is an option when the folding table book is placed on the roller feet. So it is much more convenient to transport it around the apartment.