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Restoring ugly side tables with some pallet wood

This project was quite the adventure. With no real, I picked up some large, ugly, broken side tables from the sidewalk in Redwood City and made my best attempt at restoring them using pallet wood. This project required quite a bit of labor, and I had to buy and make tools in order to complete it. The tops of these tables had thick glass. It was actually two panes of glass with a marble looking decal in between the layers of glass. That glass was held in with a wooden frame that had a marble looking plastic wrap. It was pretty ugly. I think the frame was solid brass. These were really heavy and probably too big. So I started this project by dismantling some wooden pallets. Some of them have really good lumber, some were mostly busted. But I cut them into one and a half inch strips using an old table saw, which creates a lot of usable wood. I bought a jointer for this project, and it mostly worked out fine. I should have processed more pallet wood so that I wouldn't have to compromise and use bad pieces of wood. I didn't have long clamps, so I had to create a system using wedges to secure the pieces when I glued them together. The process for clamping was very difficult, but it worked out in the end. I ended up with these thick, striped slabs of mismatched wood. There were several imperfections, but I used wood glue and sawdust to fill in most of the blemishes. Someone let me borrow their electric hand planer, which worked wonders on these table tops. I need to buy one for myself soon. After I ran that, I went over it with a belt sander, and then an orbital sander. Then these table tops got four coats of polyurethane. They came out very smooth, but they could have been sturdier. The table frames were tricky to disassemble, but eventually they came undone without breaking. I cleaned up all the brass with a cleaning solution called Brasso. It did the job just fine, the table frames shined like mirrors. Then I put it all together and we had these huge side tables. This was a very ambitious furniture refurbish project. Using reclaimed lumber has many challenges. I had to use tools I've never used before. I would say I learned a lot in this project. I love woodworking and restoring furniture. I didn't make much money, but you can't win them all. Without some chance of failure, I won't learn things or feel the thrill of risky challenges. We named this channel "We Found These" because these are all projects that we found. We actually used to live in an apartment that had an alley in the back, and we used to find discarded furniture out there and I would just carry it home on a skateboard. We hope to inspire people to try these same kinds of projects. If we can find these, I'm sure anyone can. And if we can find ways to repair and update furniture on a budget, I'm pretty sure other people can, too. You can find us on IG under the name wefoundthese, and Tiktok under the name wefoundthese . We used to have a website by the same name, but we let it go. Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/shuko/marseille-68 License code: WCY0HENOVZGIQIKL