Building A Beetle Pine Kitchen Table

Design and Fabrication

In this episode, I build a custom kitchen table out of beetle-kill pine. Beetle Kill Pin has beautiful gray streaks, creating unique patterns in the grain of the wood, creating a unique kitchen table.

A Denver, Colorado, Client commissioned this table.

Summary

Milling, Routing, and Glue-Up Techniques Discussed

Brain explained how he milled the material to achieve the desired thickness, used a router with a jig to cut mortises, and employed a table saw with a dado blade to cut the tenon shoulders. He also mentioned the importance of a haunch tenon for added strength and the need to round over the edges of the tenon. He further detailed his glue-up process, which involved gluing the side aprons in stages and then the long aprons once the glue was dry. He also installed corner blocks for extra stability and beveled the underside of the table to create visual interest using a sacrificial fence on his table saw.