Dining Table Top Completed

To expedite my posting on the dining table, I'm going to show the last couple of phases all at once.   After cutting all pieces, and laying them out, Emy and I distressed and stained the boards. One distressing method my wife had me try was burning the wood! Yup, I got a blow torch and burnt the wood and it not only darkened the wood but it brought the grain out more with a strong contrast.

With the boards all stained and laid out, I then glued and secured the boards. This was the first time that I did an inlaid top like this and I actually ran screws from the underside into each board. I've since been doing a technique that you would see in flooring, where each board is nailed (with nail gun) on edge and then the next board is butted up and covers the nailed edges.  This allowed me to move quickly and put one board after the other without waiting for the glue to dry.

Edges all cut. Now it is starting to actually look like a table!

The finishing touch for the top was the trim along the edges.

And after getting stained, it looked like this:

That's it for this post. I will conclude the dining table in one more post showing the legs and some finished product pictures.  Thanks for reading!