Pallet wood coffee table

  I had this thought that it might be a pretty cool idea to incorporate some rough textured and well aged pallet wood pieces into a piece of furniture.  I have seen various articles detailing using pallets to secure wood to make projects...however, I never saw it used to make a coffee table.   It intrigued me and I set about finding some pallets that met the criteria.  The slats needed to be flat and all relatively the same thickness.  They also had to have the right "coloring" due to exposure to the elements or just from age.  I found them only about a mile from my home at an old nursery that opens for seasonal sales, be it the summer for vegetables and fruits and in the fall for pumpkins, pies and the like.  Jointed one side of the pieces (once they were cut from the pallets) so that all of the pieces laid flat and I also jointed both side and cut them to the same width on the tablesaw.  I used some sugar maple I had laying around for the tapered legs and some other maple that came from New York state for the border of the tabletop.  The pallet wood was mounted on a 3/8th's sheet of plywood to obtain a reasonable thickness that was going to serve as a solid top in combination with the pallet wood.  Fairly simple project and it will reside in our living room across from the fireplace insert.