First project with the salvaged barn wood

gregfender · Jan 3, 2014

Started small...a key rack. I have tons of spare wood and plenty of ideas.

Bob77064 · Jan 3, 2014

Very nice.

s219 · Jan 3, 2014

Nice work! Do you know the age of the barn and species of wood?

gregfender · Jan 4, 2014

s219 said:
Nice work! Do you know the age of the barn and species of wood?

Most all of the wood I salvaged is hemlock...milled on site to build the barn. There is some hickory mixed in...most of the hickory was in the roof purlins I took off. The barn was built in the 1930's by my great Uncle Jeeter (that was really what my Mom's family called him) and an old fellow named Benfield who lived in a cabin on the edge of my great-grandfather's property and helped on the farm.

scottp62 · Feb 13, 2014

Nice work!!

kolwelding70 · Feb 13, 2014

Good job:thumbsup:

GGB · Feb 14, 2014

Very nice! Barn wood is absolutely beautiful when it takes on those colors.

I do have a question-what do you do to make the new saw cuts look aged? I couldn't see any place where it looked like fresh cuts, so I'm assuming you must have a method to make them disappear or blend in with the rest of the patina.

In any case, it looks great. Thanks for sharing.

gregfender · Feb 14, 2014

GGB said:
Very nice! Barn wood is absolutely beautiful when it takes on those colors. I do have a question-what do you do to make the new saw cuts look aged? I couldn't see any place where it looked like fresh cuts, so I'm assuming you must have a method to make them disappear or blend in with the rest of the patina. In any case, it looks great. Thanks for sharing.

On most of my pieces, I cover the cut edges with trim strips from other pieces. I've cut several boards for a table I'm working on and I have to have clean edges to glue, so I save the rough edges to trim out the smaller pieces I make. Also, for corners and such, one of the tricks I have used is putting an old, almost worn out belt on my belt sander and smoothing the corners with that. It doesn't take too much off, and slightly burns the wood and gives it a more aged look.