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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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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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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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Grandkids Highchair
jrob208 writes: There is a large cabinet shop here in Idaho Falls, Id that does mostly commercial casework. They strip their bulk lumber when it comes in and discard the scraps. I go through the...
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Oak Floor Chair
2 commentsThe Oak Floor Chair was made from reclaimed oak flooring. The flooring was re-sawn into 2.5" wide by 1/8" thick strips which were laminated with the original finish on the front and back of the...
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cafe table and chairs
iron frame for table chairs were being thrown out, the coffee table parts (they fell apart many years ago), were joined with biskits and cut to size.
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Arts & Crafts Collection From Recycled Oak from Restaurant Going Out of Business
1 commentThese Arts and Crafts pieces were made entirely from oak that I got from a restaurant that was going out of business. The wood cost me nothing.
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Notirondack Chairs
2 commentsThese are outdoor chairs that are made from reclaimed long-leaf pine. For a hundred years, this wood was floor beams in a flour mill, now they continue to live as furniture objects.
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Bow Arm Outdoor Lounge Chair
6 commentsReclaimed , vertical grain , Port Orford Cedar . Pegged , mortise & tenon construction . Sunbrella fabric , stainless steel hardware .
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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.



