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Posted: 10/27/2004 12:21:09 PM EDT
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It's been one of those things I have been meaning to get to, but never seem to get around to doing. I've been shooting off the tailgate of my truck or a piece of plywood and a couple of saw horses. Both of which suck. I have never used a range (Semi-rural Arizona! Gotta love it.), so it's always a use what ya got situation. Anyway, here's what I whipped up the other evening in the garage.  It's made from a sheet of 3/4" plywood I cut in half to make 2 pieces of 4x4 ft. I glued the two pieces together using carpenters glue and then screwed them together using deck screws around the perimeter to take the curl out and get 100% contact between the sheets, ending up with a 1.5" thick tabletop. I put cut outs on both sides because I'm a southpaw and everyone else in the world isn't. It makes it wider, but it also makes it heavier, so I guess it's a good thing. I added a set of folding table legs using 1/4" " carriage bolts , and three coats of urethane finish and VIOLA!, a pretty nice platform to shoot from. I can’t believe I’ve spent all this time cussing the crap I was shooting off of when it only took me a bout 3 hours to knock this out, not counting the paint drying time. Here's all the materials you'll need 1 - 3/4" plywood. 20 - 1 1/2" deck screws 1 - set folding table legs 8 - 1/4" x 3 1/2" carriage bolts 8 - 1/4" x 3 1/2" carriage bolts 16 - 1/4" flat washers 16 - 1/4" nuts 2 - 2x4" one foot long. Use these to raise one set of legs from bottom of table so don't interfere with the other set and fold up properly. 1- bottle Elmers yellow carpenter glue. 1- sheet course sand paper (60grit) 1 - sheet fine sand paper (220 grit) 1 - pint polyurathane finish |
I didn't keep tabs on all the prices, but a rough guesstimate is $35 plywood $20 table legs $6 Polyurathane $ 5 Nut-Bolts-washers $1.50 foam paint brush Total about $70 |
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