When first looking at this truck at the previous owner's place, he mentioned, "It even has a map table." He tried to pull out a piece of wood from under the glove compartment but it was stuck. Well isn't that cool though, I thought to myself. Once I finally did get the piece of wood to budge, I found out it was pressed board, so it was time to make a replacement. I found a piece of 3/4" pine in the basement and set about cutting it up into strips. I decided to make the strips two different widths just to make things interesting.
The strips are glued up and pressed together.
Once the glue dried, I hit both sides with a belt sander, then planed the sharp edges using Dad's 1940s
Stanley Bailey Plane Type 17 No. 5. The plane is a joy to use, and look at those nice little wood curlicues. Oh, and that's Dad's Homecraft table saw also. He bought it new in the 1950s I think.
I routed out a finger groove in the bottom side of the table. I didn't have a wide bit so I had to make multiple passes. (I later used the table saw and made a deeper crescent-shaped finger groove by making multiple cuts with the saw blade)
It sure looks a lot better than the piece it replaced. I just left the wood bare. Being pine, it will yellow some and mellow out. I think the tables they sell online are plywood. I think mine looks good...
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