Heh all,

My daughter is moving into a new empty house a few hours from me after being exposed to the Southwest furniture arena for many years and much to my chagrin, when I offered to build a few pieces for her, she has decide that she likes Mexican Rustic.
It does have a certain charm but also a lack of quality. (do a search under Mexican Rustic and you will see what I mean.)

Does any one have any reference starting points on some of the construction techniques? ( I know, “start with an apple crate, some bent nails..”)

I was thinking Mesquite and she’s thinking pine..big price difference.

Seriously – Books, woods, hardware sources, techniques to make it look rough but well built underneath etc.
I’ve never tried to make anything bad before from the get go. I have built bad pieces but not with that intent when I started 🙂

Any thoughts out there?

Thanks

BB