Keys to building forever flat tabletop to make a flat solid wood tabletop that stays flat throughout its life you need to choose prepare machine and join its boards correctly.
Building a solid wood table top.
In this video you ll learn how to build a solid wood table top from a pile of different size and type of lumber.
1 shows the reason for this arrangement.
This is an important step when using flat sawn lumber which is the most common cut of lumber you re likely to buy.
Clamp curved caul edges inwards so they align tabletop boards in the middle then torque up the main clamps to draw the boards together.
If you want to make things even easier use pre cut lumber for the top.
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I use 1 x 4 lengths of hardwood for cauls with one edge planed to a curve so the ends measure about 2 1 2 wide.