With reclaimed wood you may need to do a little more prep work to get it into good usable shape.
Building a wooden table top.
But once you do you can create a rustic dining table that preserves the years of character within the wood.
It doesn t have to be complicated.
Cut the plywood to the maximum size you might want set it up on something in the place where the finished table will go then live with it for a while.
Apply not one but a trio of stains.
Want to make it memorable.
So that s how simple it is to build a table top basically glue clamp trim sand finish.
A piece of 1 2 plywood offers the best approach for determining the optimal size and shape of your tabletop because it lets you test and tweak various options in 3d.
You could even recreate this design using 1x 2x and 4x material from the home center.
You can use biscuits dowels pocket holes etc.