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FAMILY BAR
The Family Bar was built with old reclaimed barn boards. The bars framework was built with 2 X 4 lumber that was laying around in my workshop waiting for it's next project. Even some of...
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The Plant Stand
6 commentsI built this table in two days. That may seem like a long time to some but keep in mind that the major aspects of it were experimental. I had never built a jig to create curved wood nor...
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Corner Cool-weather Pantry from Workshop Scraps
1 commentA corner pantry from workshop scraps
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Curio Cabinet from Shippping Crates and Skids
1 commentThis is a small cabinet approximately 3' tall and 6" x 5". It is a frame and panel construction. I salvaged the boards from various crates and skids I found in my travels as a truck...
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"Pleasant Retrreat" table
Asian inspired console table made from historic heart pine reclaimed from "Pleasant Retreat" (ca. 1810. Appomattox Co., VA) with salvaged green slate top
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Jacob Crespo Memorial Chair
I was commissioned on a volunteer basis to build this memorial chair in honor of Jacob Crespo, an eight year old environmentalist who died from a brain aneurysm last year. Everything, minus the...
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Oak Clocks
One of 4 clocks made from oak planking from the gold rush era ship the Rome. Sunk in 1852 it now resides under San Francisco's Embarcadero. In 1994 an underground extension of the...
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Kid's table and chairs
1 commentThis is the third set of table and chairs I have made for toddlers. This particular set has an MDF table top, but the rest is made of crate lumber shipped from overseas. The crates house...
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"Reimagined" Closet cabinet
Part of remodelling our master bedroom closet required removing a built-in dresser and shelf unit. Although it defied most furniture-building conventions, it had lasted over one hundred...
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Baby Grand Dining Table from reclaimed wood
2 commentsThe Baby Grand comes in at 67"x 29.5"x 29.5", with mortise and tenon joinery in reclaimed wood, and follows a neo-gothic design sense. Also designed, thought yet unbuilt, are matching...
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Iron Table - from reclaimed wood
1 commentThe wood for the Iron table top was found lodged in a pile of driftwood on a riverbank. It was a 15'x3"x12" my wife & I lugged back to our campsite. The rest was from various...
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Viking Bed - Reclaimed Wood
5 commentsThe client wished for a magnificent bed that would reflect his heritage, and gave me free reign to design. I thought, let's make it as fantastic as possible, and put patterns and carvings...
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Chinese Chest - Reclaimed Wood
An Asian inspired chest made entirely from reclaimed materials - even the metal for the hardware which I made as well. Joinery is pinned mortise & tenon. There are at least 6 different...
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Wee Lassie Canoe
2 commentsThis strip canoe was built using plans from Mac Macarthy, who drew them based on a Rushton design. The strips have various sources: pine from an old water bed frame, pine from recycled...
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Rustic Chair
1 commentRustic Chair - The legs were built from salvaged cedar posts smoothed with a draw knife and sanded. The seat is buckeye and the backrest is walnut.
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Walnut Dining Table
This table was a special project, built for friends. The wood is 100% reclaimed from our local area over the past 30 years. The entire table is Black Walnut with Mountain Mahogany...
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Garden Bench
3 commentsI built this bench from two planks of reclaimed, "sinker" cypress I found in the way, way back of a lumber mill in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. As far as I can tell, the tree they came from was well over...
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Wine Barrel Furniture
1 commentI enjoy making furniture from used wine barrels which are really inexpensive and quality wood. You just have to figure out how to work with all of the curves! The tilt top table is from a...
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Workbench
4 commentsThe wood for this bench came off the streets of Brooklyn, NY. Ash, White and Red oak, and even walnut. The walnut were two 3x5x8 skids of a pallet left for the trashman. The vises, of course, just...
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Eastern Red Cedar Blanket Chest
1 commentThe wood for this chest was salvaged from trees destined to be bulldozed and burned. It's roughly 42" x 18" x 21", finished with Shellac and wax. The inside is left unfinished to preserve the...
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Paint Shelves
4 commentsThe house next door was being demolished, and I salvaged the subfloor to make this shelving unit for storing paint in our basement. Because these boards had also been used for the foundations...
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cherry footstool
1 commentThe top and live edges in the legs were from a slab of cherry, though I didn't know it at the time. It was lying in a friend's back yard in the dirt (actually mud; it had been raining) and was...
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untitled sculpture
The woodwork on this piece is made from figured Makore veneer scraps. I was inspired to make a sculpture that evoked the idea of a chair without being functional as a chair. This was...
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Congratulations to our winner!
Congratulations to our winner Clark Kellogg, aka Clarkatron, with his garden bench made from reclaimed “sinker” cypress.
Prize Package:
- Fine Woodworking Archive Collection DVD-ROM
- Fine Woodworking Shop Apron
- Fine Woodworking Mug
Contest is now closed.
Winner was announced on May 29, 2009.
