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Johnny & Greg’s Table

This unique table was built by Johnny and Greg from Pensacola, FL.

After seeing your video on cutting boards, it sparked an interest. We’ve made all kinds from straight grain to end grain, we have even made curved wood boards (where we bend and glue into that shape). All of these boards and my need for a table lead us here. The table is 40” across and has about 200 pcs of wood mostly made of dunnage from South America. We pick up the dunnage (pallet material) from a local lumber supply store for free. Beautiful wood that’s just thrown away. Some of the varieties include guanacaste, purple heart and peroba rosa. We also purchased blood wood for this project. I haven’t been able to identify the rest. The glue ups were done in 12” sections-after planing and jointing biscuits were used to join the sections. All of the knot holes are filled with clear epoxy to showcase the holes. The legs are composed of 15 pcs each. The strips are planed thin enough so that no steaming was necessary. We finished it off with some good old antique oil.

Comments

  1. What a beautiful way to reduce, reuse and recycle.

  2. Medfloat June 24, 2010

    Nice table. I like the curved, laminated legs and the multiple layers of contrast on the top. The best part is your recycling of the pallets. Great work guys.

    Dan

    • joey November 8, 2010

      i also like the curved leg feature. beautiful table overall and curved legs = more weight support. the magic of the arch at work.

  3. Marty June 24, 2010

    What a fantastic table! You can’t beat the price either. I’m constantly amazed at what other countries use for pallet wood. My table saw shipped from China arrived on 2 pallets made up of quarter sawn white oak.

  4. Frank Kovach June 24, 2010

    This is simply AWESOME!

  5. Adam June 24, 2010

    Awesome table! Reminiscent of the walnut & maple end table Marc built with the sculpted. I’m not sure if you got inspiration from it, but it looks great!

  6. Thomas Tarner June 24, 2010

    I’m going to start grabbing the wood off the trucks we get at work. I’m an Ironworker by trade and we see a lot of white oak 4×4′s and some other hard woods come in with our steel

  7. Claude Stewart June 25, 2010

    Great looking table. I’ve used pallet wood before but nothing like this. Most of the pallets we get around here aren’t hard wood.

  8. Jeff Yates June 25, 2010

    Wow…

    That is just beautiful…

    Do NOT let my wife see that..I won’t have peace until she gets one if she sees it…

  9. Thomas Tarner June 25, 2010

    Oh…. BTW the table looks great. I think I was speechless the first time I saw this and forgot to give you a proper compliment yesterday

  10. Man that is too cool. Nice job.

  11. RayCurtis July 3, 2010

    GREAT way to recycle, and a beautiful design.

  12. don bramblett July 9, 2010

    wow!!!!! your a recycling genius! such beautiful work i couldnt justify not going with you guys, let me know what your gonna build next…..i need to know before hand……thanks

  13. mex October 27, 2011

    hi jonny and greg, can i ordered some tables for a project.
    round and rectangular tables. that tables look great.

    let me know ASAP please

    mex

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