I have a very short little planter table that I put together as a silly father-son project with my 3 year old. The idea was to use up the left over lumber from my deck. I haven't finished the table because I am not sure how to adhere the table top in such a way that there are no screws showing.
Looking down, the table underpinning (no top) looks like this (go fixed width font):
+----+ +----+ | +----------------------------+ | | +-------------++-------------+ | +-++-+ || +-++-+ || || || || || || || || || +-++-+ || +-++-+ | +-------------++-------------+ | | +----------------------------+ | +----+ +----+Legs are short cedar 4x4's, and the thinner bars are cedar 2x4's. Now I have cedar boards (true ¾ x true 5½) to act as a table top. I'll draw these with #'s OVER the prior diagram so you can get a sense as to what overlaps what:
############################################ # +----+ +----+ # # | +----------------------------+ | # # | +-------------++-------------+ | # ############################################ # || || || # # || || || # # || || || # ############################################ # | +-------------++-------------+ | # # | +----------------------------+ | # # +----+ +----+ # ############################################
So the question is how do I best screw these boards to the top from underneath? The entirety of the underpinning is pocket screws (...sort of, more like 30° angles), so no screws show. But I would like to keep the no screws showing policy going here.
Do I.....
- Use angle brackets connecting the 2x4's to the top boards from "inside" and underneath? These would require very short screws predrilled into the boards.
or
- The 2x4's are a true 3¼" I have 3½" decking screws. I'm wondering if I couldn't just counter sink in the screw the entire width of the 2x4 upwards and (if I'm careful) have it pierce the top by only ½"... But that seems sketchy to me.
or
- something else?
Thanks!
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