How to Build a Herringbone top Table 

Love to see a woman tackling a woodworking project like this! Very inspiring. Thanks for sharing!

I also love tinkering, and watching videos like other people do, it's very nice how girls work!👍

You can match the 1X6 to the yellow line easier by using the center of the board. Mark the midpoint at the end of the first 2 boards, make sure they are on the yellow line and everything should match up from there.

Great Job Brandi 👏🏼 table looks amazing

Thank you for sharing. I'm doing a hexagon shaped card table and my customers want it done in a herringbone format, so this was helpful. Cheers

Love it! Awesome video Brandi! 😁

Woot woot! Awesome video and an excellent tutorial! You’re a heck of a builder, teacher, and videographer! Nice work! 👍🏼

Such a good look, thanks for the video

- VERY GOOD ! ! ! Thanx 4 the instructions. It's totally similar to quilting.

Very helpful, thank you!

Love this thank you so much

So it looks like your starting at from the bottom and working your way up. I started making a table today and quickly got stuck on the pattern. I'll try your method! Thanks for sharing! 😉

Amazing!

Excellent

Easiest way to determine where your first board goes is to measure the width of your board and find the center of your board and mark it. Now line up the mark on the center of your board to the center line on your tabletop and it should now be perfectly centered

Beautiful! Curious how you finish the wood? Do you have a video of that process?

Great build, thanks for the inspiration! I recently decided to start my own channel based around woodworking/interior design. Is there any advice you can give as to how I can build my audience, or what they like most about your videos? Again, I love the table!

Thank you for making a great video. I would love for you to make video on how you make your legs they complement the top gorgeously

this was so amazingly helpful. Thank you! One question. Im doing tis for a outside table what should I use as the base to prevent warping or even rotting?

Its can also work for 1x3 pinewoods? Thnx.. great video very informative..

I wonder, would a 45 degree pencil line from the middle of the board help you to line up with the chalk line?

Great video! Thanks! Have you ever tried to cut a table leaf in one of these? I am considering it, but worried that the cut line, even if matched up really well in the herringbone pattern, would be an eyesore. Am I crazy to even consider it?

Do you happen to have a video of how to build the base of this table? Thanks in advance. A beautiful table!

Awesone video. Quick question... How do you go about covering the hole from the brad nails, do you use regular wood filler?

Have you done a video on the table legs?

Looks great!! Is there any reason you started the herringbone at that end and not the other?? Thanks

Would it be easier to do 2 lines, so you just have to line up the corners of the boards? I hope you get what i mean 🙂

- Did U make the work tables ??? That would be a really nice future project. I like the design & they look really sturdy.

How did you finish the sides? The wood top with a visible fiber board underneath. Did you line the side or just like that?

Nice

Thanks very much for this video! I love the look of this long board pine. I think this might be the way I start (maybe a coffee table) to practice herringbone...Ideally I'd want a small (short) board herringbone table, having several herringbones run along the table top, but I'm afraid needing to cut so many boards at the exact same length leaves me a very small margin of error and I need as big a margin as I can get, haha. I do wonder about the pine, is it hard enough to be a table top? Or should I expect it to dent and scuff up a little as part of the 'look'?

table looks awesome? what kind of glue you use? and does the glue cause any warpage in the table top?

I really like the video! My question is - will/did you edge the table to hide the board underneath? I can’t help but think that the board would stand out. Xx

What stain did you use for top? amazing job by the way👍👍

Should the chalk line be in the center of the boards all the way to the opposite end? I feel like we are doing this correctly yet the triangles aren't equal like the first ones. Maybe boards sizes being slightly off??

I am about to start on a very complicated herringbone circle table and you provided some good insights here. A main difference I am doing is I will not be nailing my boards to a flat substance, I plan on just gluing the boards together on a flat surface. Do you think this will hold up alright over time? I am making it out of 1.5" oak. Thanks again and very beautiful tables!

What do you finish with for outdoor use?

Hello :-) Great build! I made one also a couple months ago with pine. I was wondering if you experienced the same trouble of shrinking pine?? I glued everything perfectly without any space in between, but now i have gaps sometimes as big as 3mm :-( I think it's because i build the table in wintertime in a cold garage. As soon as i brought the table home where the heating was on, the trouble began. Maybe not the best wood choice? Would really like to hear your experience :-)

How have you noted these tales respond to expansion and contraction?

What did you do about some cracks along the boards where they weren’t exactly the straightest. Did you use an epoxy resin or use DAP wood filler for the holes as well as the gaps between 1x6’s?

Hi. I am staining all of my pieces of wood different colours, so can't stain them at the end. How do I nail each one without having nail holes that I then have to try and match the wood filler to at the end? Can I nail from the underside instead?

Do you at all consider wood movement? I am currently building a 32" x 72" herringbone table and trying to find the best way to do this. Gluing and nailing every piece solid to a substrate is the worst possible way to do this.

Do you have a tutorial on how you do the base of this table?

If you don’t mind me asking, what gauge nail do you usually run on projects like these?

Ok...i know it would be better to nail the slats down ... BUT .. would you say you could do it ONLY using tightbond and leaving to dry every few pieces..i mean its a solid bond soo??

Is this two different colors of pinewood???

we just tried making this and how did u cut the overhang off without cutting the actual table?

How do you accommodate seasonal wood movements. Especially since your framing it.

You attached the 1x6 to the plywood but how? Glue and what else? And did you cover the side edges?

Do you have a video of how you did the legs? No pressure, just asking.lol

I know this is an older video but has anyone made something like this WITHOUT the plywood underneath? Trying to figure out how to attach the herringbone to each other for a sliding barn door, where I need both sides of the door show the design.

So the plywood always stays on the bottom? Do you hide it an anyway?

Can you show me how you build the legs base

Can I see how you make the legs

What length are each of the 1x6?

how do you attach your table top to your base?

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Great video, just don’t use pine. It’s way too soft of a wood for a table.