Lets see your Woodworking Skills

[elbowroom]

I've done decent furniture stuff, but I find working with reclaimed wood (i.e. dirty, full of nails, cupped, rotton, etc.) is much harder to deal with. Here are a couple of pieces using wood from a pig barn that collapsed on my property

Tilt out garbage can holder:


Coffee table trunk with hand cut dovetails and elm wood top from the barn:


I also used acid to strip the hardware and gun bluing material to make the black oxide handles. Turned out great! Fun project.

 

[robbyr]

So lots of steam and a fancy jig? (to get that oak bent)

Soaked in a vat with a big heating element and bent in aluminum jigs by hydraulic pressure.

 

[wawajake]

The mantle and the table came from the same maple tree from my bush lot , and the stools from another smaller maple. All gifts for my daughter's rural house.

 

[k0ua]

Soaked in a vat with a big heating element and bent in aluminum jigs by hydraulic pressure.

Cool!.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

Dang, I forgot about my own thread!

Here is a small kitchen island I just made for my son's apartment out of an old desk.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

I've done decent furniture stuff, but I find working with reclaimed wood (i.e. dirty, full of nails, cupped, rotton, etc.) is much harder to deal with. Here are a couple of pieces using wood from a pig barn that collapsed on my property

Tilt out garbage can holder:
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Coffee table trunk with hand cut dovetails and elm wood top from the barn:
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I also used acid to strip the hardware and gun bluing material to make the black oxide handles. Turned out great! Fun project.

Nice hand cut dovetails. Nice work!

 

[jerrybob]

Here's an 1890's coach I recently restored.......

 

[elbowroom]

Wow, nice restoration!

 

[woodlandfarms]

Jerrybob, not sure what part of the hood you are in but hello. WOW, that restoration is amazing. One heck of a project. How bad of shape was it in?

 

[newbury]

I love the look of a slab table with a live edge. Is there any trick to stop them from cracking after you cut them?

I have experimented with lots of tricks. The main thing to do is slab up the logs and have them dry in
a somewhat controlled manner. The worst thing you can do is to leave them as large thick pieces (>6"), which
allows the outer parts to build up tension stresses as it dries. If you can make the inner part dry faster
than the outer part, then maybe you can reduce the checking. Maybe.

Chainsaw millers regularly slap some goop on the ends of their slabs. It is expensive stuff. I suggest
using melted wax from a candle. Again, outer drying that causes checking is much more of a problem
if you leave the logs in large pieces with removed bark.

One of the "goops" I use is latex paint on the ends while letting the logs/lumber dry, about $9/gallon at Home Depot/lowes on the "whoops rack".