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title: 'Wood Table Top'
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date: 2025-03-03T16:56:02-08:00
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# New post about woodworking stuff  wowie

Here's the situation: I have a tool box that I do random projects on 
and recently I made a giant mess of the top of it. This wouldn't be
an issue if this were a garage... but this is basically my living room.

{{< pic "/img/wood-top-03-mar-2025/the-problem.jpg" >}}

The plan to have something not as ugly is simple: give the box a simple
wood top so that it wouldn't look so terrible. 2x6's were my choice of
lumber as they were both thick enough to endure and wide enough to not
require tons of cutting & fastening.

{{< pic "/img/wood-top-03-mar-2025/planning.jpg" >}}

For reference this is how we're going to secure the boards to the top
of the toolbox. A bolt those head sits in a counter bore and gets
strapped with a nut/washer combo on the other side.

{{< pic "/img/wood-top-03-mar-2025/layers.jpg" >}}

One thing to remember is to measure **everything** including the size
of the bolt heads so that you don't counter their exact size :upside_down_face:

{{< pic "/img/wood-top-03-mar-2025/no-way-fits.jpg" >}}

No thing to fear however because we can just pull the bolt through
so long as we can grab it with the nut on the other side :grimacing: 

{{< pic "/img/wood-top-03-mar-2025/single-thread.jpg" >}}

Using this method I was able to pull everything through and get a proof
of concept for some very janky tool storage. Which I realized only after
I took this picture will require some proper support to withstand being
vertical _and_ face down.

{{< pic "/img/wood-top-03-mar-2025/future-plans.jpg" >}}

Finally here's the thumbnail pic

{{< pic "/img/wood-top-03-mar-2025/final.jpg" >}}
