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chest of drawers
This Dresser is made of 100 year old Walnut boards salvaged from a stone hauling trailer. The top is Butternut with a Walnut breadboard. There is a hand scraped Walnut cock-bead around...
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chest on stand
6 commentsThis cabinet was made from Cherry, milled by the recipient’s deceased grandfather, with spalted, curly Maple veneered sides and doors, made from wood salvaged from a pallet. The doors...
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A Side Table
A Side Table is made from solid black walnut and claro walnut scraps collected from a local woodshop. The inlays are osage orange veneer offcuts. Dimensions are 25 3/16" x 14 1/2" x...
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Portable collapsable bar
This is a portable bar I built to take to Burning Man and Rally America Rallies. It is from reclaimed wood that is either Maple or Redwood. The top and shelp lift out and the wings fold in for...
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Craft Brewed Fish
This is my latest "Craftbrewed Fish". Each fish is cut from reclaimed wood then carved. Reclaimed bottle caps are flattened for scales. This Bass is made from wood salvaged from an old barn in Ohio...
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Reclaimed Fir Dining Table and Buffet
6 commentsAs a fulltime furniture maker I rarely find time to build something for us. It was nice to take something that would be in a dump by now and turn it into something that can be past on for generations.
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Shutter Table
1 commentA shutter from my great-grandfather's house became a wedding gift table for his great-great-grandson. Stiles became legs. Rails became the top frame. Louvres became aprons and the...
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Curio Cabinet
1 commentThis curio cabinet is made of white oak which Habitat salvaged from a college building. Because of the narrow stairway, the unit is only 22" wide and attached to the wall. The "M" panel...
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Beadboard Lamp
The beadboard with existing paint finish is from my great-grandfather's house. The lamp was a wedding gift to his great-great grandson. The design was serendipity: when I got my new...
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Closet Shelves and Brackets
These brackets and shelves were made from recycled pine. Our 1906 house had a simple Jelly Cabinet in the basement that was rotting at the base and falling apart. I salvaged what I could...
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Dining Table from reclaimed Maple
1 commentThis is our (former) dining table from reclaimed maple I got from a company in West Virginia that specializes in disassembling old barns and salvaging the lumber and timber. The wood was about...
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Dual Game board
I made this project for a good friend who asked me to make him a game board before he retired. Both the hard maple and black cherry were supplied by him. The hard maple sections were made from...
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Country Pine Painted Hutch
Copied from a store display unit that my wife liked. I asked if I could measure it up as I was a New Yankee workshop apprentice. They agreed. Came across some good pine shelving that another retail...
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My first chair
This chair is my first attempt at making a chair of any kind. I actually didn’t have any desire to make a chair until I started seeing more and more people posting chairs on this site and...
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ROUTER TABLE
1 commentI made this router table almost entirely of salvaged pallet lumber and dunnage lumber, I work in a company that receives machinery destined to Mexico, I have salvaged much lumber that otherwise would...
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Couples Urn
1 commentAfter my parents died, I made this couple's urn out of a Ucalyptus tree Dad had cut down before his illness. The top is some bookmatched Oregon Walnut left over from another project as is the base...
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Recycled Cabinet Nightstand
I had made the single drawer nightstand a couple of years ago. Someone gave me the old cabinet missing a drawer and I turned it into a matching nightstand to the original. The green glass knobs are...
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Chestnut Ratchet Lamp
3 commentsI bought 3 reclaimed wormy chestnut boards online and made this ratchet lamp. No stain, oil/varnishand and wax finish.
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"a bowsaw from pallet wood"
1 commentI got the design from http://www.toolsforwoodworking.com. On this website you will find the exact plans with to scale drawings. There are more designs, like on...
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Coffee Table from mahogany reclaimed from church pews in Hawaii
The coffee table was made from mahogany that was reclaimed from an old damaged church pew from a no-longer-used chapel on Schofield Barracks.
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Redwood Planter
When part of a 35 year old deck had to be replaced I spent considerable time working around rusted out nails, split boards and such to salvage enough clean stock to build this planter.
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Chimney Cabinet
1 commentThis Chimney Cabinet is constructed entirely of salvaged shipping boards. The logo of the manufacture (IKO) is visible above the middle shelf and on the inside door stile by the lower hinge. The...
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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.
