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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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White Ash tree House
5 commentsIn 2004 the emerald ash borer devastated metro Detroit killing millions of ash trees including an 80-foot tall tree in our back yard. We couldn't let all that wood go to waste so we...
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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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arts and crafts night stand
1 commentI designed and built this nightstand for my wife with reclaimed antique wormy chestnut from a barn built in 1900 in North Carolina.
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Heartpine Chest
Heartpine flooring reclaimed from a turn of the century house here in Gulfport, MS. To do justice to the tight, complex grain, I polished the wood with 1200 grit paper prior to applying shellac and...
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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.
