For the past five weeks, I would come home from work, exercise, then spend hours in the garage with my friend and this project until it was bedtime. I couldn’t afford to buy nice wood, so I found some free pallets and dismantled them, pleasantly surprised to find poplar, maple, red oak, white oak, and pine. I planed every piece of wood on all four sides, then handed them off to my friend so he could square the ends. I wanted the overall aesthetic to be a nice-looking pallet table (as opposed to just some pallets stacked on cinder blocks or something), so I chose pieces with cutouts for a forklift to build the frame. The frame is held together with countersunk screws, the resulting holes filled with dowels. Each piece of the tabletop was joined together with biscuits, clamps, and a lot of patience (two pieces at a time, good god). The tabletop was sanded many times over, then coated thrice with polyurethane. My friend sandblasted and painted the carriage bolts matte black for the table legs, which are made out of 300-year-old pallet oak. Much of the aged and weathered patina of the lumber was removed during planing and sanding, so I kept all nail holes and what blemishes I could to preserve the pallet essence. Besides labor (which was super fun and something I looked forward to every single day), the only costs were the bolts, washers, and nuts for attaching the legs.
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