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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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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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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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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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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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Recycled Pen Yan boat
Cabinet made from 1937 Pen Yan boat front half and other vintage recycled material, I think this boat fond a good way to retire. Working Green and loving it.
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Adirondack style cabinet made from recycled wood
1 commentMy cabinet is made from recycled wood, birch bark panels, branch work and deer antler handles. This cabinet is my interpretation of a up state NY Adirondack style. Always working green and loving it.
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Chimney Cabinet Made From Old Roof Boards
I helped a friend of mine put a new roof on a few years ago. We tore off a couple layers of shingles, cedar shakes, and these boards that the shakes were nailed to. We saved the...
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Kitchen cart
I built this American chestnut kitchen cart from lumber which I sawed and milled from logs found in a 100+ year old log barn on my daughter's property. The knife/utensil holder consists of a...
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DEADHEAD CYPRESS CABINET
1 commentThe cabinet is 6 ft. tall with three circular glass shelves inside. Finish is Danish oil and polyurethane mix wet sanded from 320 thru 600 grit. Deadhead lumber is a term given to wood that has been...
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Linen cupboard
Frame is made of warped kitchen tabletop resawn into framing material. Doors are window sashes from an old hotel. Door handles are old ceramic insulators and knobs. Top decorative frame...
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From Mansfield Ohio to Livermore California a measured journey.
1 commentThis folk art cabinet is made entirely of recycled material. It has over 80 yardsticks and the top is edged with vintage electric fence insulators.
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Flooring Hang-Up
4 commentsAll of the cherry came from discarded cherry floor boards. The Oak base and back support came from discarded 8/4 Oak boards used for house sheathing (1860)
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Corner Cabinet
1 commentMade from sheathing off a 100+ year old house that was heading to the landfill.
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Chimney cupboards
3 commentsMade from sheathing from a 100+ year old house that was on it's way to the landfill.
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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.
