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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chinese Checkers, anyone?
1 commentI was walking down W. 22nd Street in Manhattan on my way to work and walked by four dumpsters filled with sheetrock scraps, 2X4's, empty joint compound buckets and a few hundred square feet of...
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Eridu
1 commentI made these tables, called Eridu, out of damaged teak patio furniture which I cut up and remilled, reclaimed elm flooring and the top is Paperstone, a solid surface made from 100% postconsumer...
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One man's trash...
Though there wasn't much "woodwork" involved in making this piece, I do feel it fits perfectly in the "Green" category. The keg was found on the side of the road one day while house hunting...
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Mission coffee table
2 commentsMission-style coffee table: a combination of two plans that I found and re-sized to meet my needs. All but 5 BF of new QSWO that I used for this project was from reclaimed lumber.
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Nature provides
The top of this table is urban black walnut, a dead tree that I had milled, the base is Elk antlers of different size, found at flee market. Working Green and loving it.
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Ipe and Mahogany Side Table
3 commentsThis is a table I made of Ipe and Mahogany scraps that were being thrown out on a jobsite I was working at. The top ,legs, and shelf are mahogany. The bottom stringers are Ipe. The lower shelf...
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Kitchen Island of Reclaimed Lumber
4 commentsThis kitchen island is made almost entirely from reclaimed lumber. Wormy chestnut, salvaged from barn sheathing, makes up the body of the island. The lower shelf is made from...
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A madrone tree blew down in a storm and....
two years ago, a large limb of a madrone blew down in a storm. Instead of making firewood, I decided to mill it.
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Window Table inspired by Mission Gong Stand.
2 commentsMade from old white oak barn boards. No electricity used to make it except for the light bulbs. Brace, chisels, hand planes, hand saws, scrapers, hide glue, walnut stain from black walnuts...
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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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reclaimed wood end table
11 commentsA friend of mine got rid of an old hot tub. This table use to be the hot tub surround. Cedar. 23 x 18 x 17 Finish is 3 coats of oil then wax.
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hall table
1 commentThis oak hall table was made from an old drop leaf table that my neighbor threw in his trash pile.
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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.
