Large Hairpin Dining Table

You guys know I accept a honey for hairpin legs. I've used them on my Mid-Century Industrial storage unit, on my Hairpin Leg Vanity, together with I've fifty-fifty shared a tutorial how to brand your ain DIY hairpin legs. 

A few months agone I was browsing through Industrial Farmhouse table a built a few years ago, but it was fourth dimension for something new. 

I came upon a potential problem. I knew I was going to locomote hairpin legs, but I besides knew I wanted a ginormous table, similar seven feet long. This could pose a potential problem. Unlike a traditional tabular array where the aprons distribute a lot of the load, almost of the fourth dimension y'all simply screw hairpin legs through the mounting brackets, correct to the bottom of the tabular array top. Well, using The Sagulator, I calculated that I would accept to accept a tabular array transcend roughly 2" thick to non sag inward the middle. Not alone would that live hard to educate together with hold back foreign on prissy legs, it would practice thence much weight, I wouldn't experience comfortable mounting it on transcend of sparse steel rods.

Materials List:

• (4) 29" Hairpin dining legs
• (1) Solid dining tabular array top
• (14)* 3/4" #8 forest screws
• (12) *1" #8 forest screws
• 1 ft - 3/8" clear plastic tubing

Like I've done many times earlier inward the past, instead of edifice a tabular array top, I hitting upwards Craigslist for a donor table. I was able to detect a 38" x 84" tabular array inward admittedly oil shape, but alongside a solid, 1" thick top. I ditched the legs together with busted out the *belt sander. After a couplet hours of striping together with sanding, I had my ginormous, company forest tabular array transcend together with it alone toll me $80. 

Not wanting a saggy dining table, my adjacent measurement was to practice a steel sub-frame to plough over additional support. I picked upwards three, 8 pes lengths of 1" x 1/16" angle Fe from my local Industrial Metal Supply, but y'all tin detect the same materials at Home Depot. 

Using an angle grinder, I cutting two, 82" lengths together with two, 36" lengths, mitering the corners on each end. I thence created a rectangular frame together with welded the seams. If y'all don't accept a welder, I'd advise looking upwards a local metallic fabricator together with getting a quote. I talked to a welder friend of mine together with he said he would alone accuse roughly $20 to weld a frame similar this together.

Once the frame was together, I pre-drilled holes every 18", using a 1/8" metallic specific drill bit. The frame thence received 3 coats of  *matte dark spray enamel, followed yesteryear 2 coats of *matte lacquer .

I flipped the transcend human face upwards downward on my carpeting together with aligned the frame 1" from all 4 edges together with screwed it into identify using 3/4" forest screws. Next, it was fourth dimension to attach the hairpin legs. I placed the legs all the agency inward each corner of the frame. The thickness of the frame created a modest gap betwixt the leg bracket together with the bottom of the tabular array top. To fill upwards the gap, I stacked a couplet modest washers, thence drove 1" long forest screws through the pre-drilled holes.

I flipped the whole affair over together with my tabular array was basically done. If your tabular array if going to live resting on hard flooring, similar mine, you'll likely desire to brand yourself a laid of prophylactic guards. I picked upwards 1 pes of 3/8" clear tubing from True Value for something similar $0.40. I used a utility knife to cutting four, 2 inch segments together with sliced them downward the middle. I could thence easily skid them over the betoken of each hairpin.

And here's the finally result, sitting inward its novel home.

I all the same accept my *gunmetal Tabouret chairs I ordered a few years ago. I all the same honey them, but I intend I may switch them out eventually. Here's how the tabular array looks au naturale. You can't actually larn an thought for scale, but this affair is large together with inward charge.

I tin check 8 chairs comfortably together with 10 if nosotros needed to. I honey having all the infinite together with no hint of a sag.

What practice y'all think? Ready to brand your own? Feel gratis to pivot the icon below. 

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