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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Recycled Wood Coffee Table
Coffee table made from a fir post and fir flooring salvaged from an old Victorian home in Eureka, California. Stripes are from an old piece of redwood and a leftover scrap of bloodwood from another...
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skinny legs and all
5 commentsI designed and built this small side table over the past winter, it's main body is Ash. A log that my wife and I literally stumbled over a few years back on the shore of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. I had a freind with a bandsaw mill rip it down and left it to air dry for three years. The drawer fronts are made from Angelique, again another 'sea-faring' wood species...This was reclaimed from an old barge that sat in Marthas Vineyard for the better part of 100 years! This table was completely made by hand using only hand tools. The finish is Tried and True oil/varnish mix. Reclaimed wood, no power tools used and a food grade all natural oil for finish...what could be any greener than that? Cheers! www.tomfidgen.blogspot.com
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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.
