Making Furniture

[K7147]

Hi Kids!

How many of you rural folk make your own furniture? I’m sure there are many and I’d love to see some of your projects. I’ve spent many pleasurable hours, especially during the winter months, making sawdust and little boards out of big boards. With the exception of some of the more exotic woods my materials come right from our property.

Here are some examples of recent projects:

1. Hall Bench: This bench has a hinged seat for storage. The sugar maple is accented with black walnut and the rest is figural black cherry.
2. Billiard Cabinet: This stores all the small pool room accessories. The nine ball rack is maple, the door is “heart” or red birch and the rest of the cabinet is black cherry. Cutting the pool ball in half on a band saw was the tricky part!
3. Table: This table is all black cherry using both sap and heart wood.
4. Porch Chair: The slats are black (brown) ash and the rest is black cherry. Everything is peg or dowel joined with no screws or nails.
5. Pool Hall: The clock surround is black cherry and the lower tally board is birch, black walnut, and Jotoba (Brazilian Cherry).
6. Recipe Box: This is made of maple and black walnut.
7. Coffee Table: This is my “scrap-box” continental coffee table as the wood parquetry of inlay and veneer came from years of collecting woodworking scraps and represents twenty six species of wood from five continents.

Who else out there likes to make sawdust?

Ken

 

[EddieWalker]

Very nice!!! I especially like the part that you made them from wood on your land. Thats really cool.

I'd love to see a project from taking down the tree to the finished product.

Thanks,
Eddie

 

[Cliff_Johns]

That's some nice work, Ken. Like Eddie, I think it's cool that the furniture is made from trees out of your own back forty. That's got to add a special something when you use the chair or whatever.

I had put up a few photos on my TBN photo home some time ago and realized that they survived the TBN remake, so they are still there should you be interested.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/photos/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/9570

Cliff

 

[BTDT]

Nice looking "attatchments" you have there. Do you make these for sale, or just hobby and necessity. I always like it when different colors of wood are used (as in the coffe table). These will be heirlooms one of these days, I bet.

 

[oscer]

You guys really do nice work. I agree that it's an added value that the lumber came from your own land. My wife and I built this dining room suite with lumber sawn on her grandfathers mill.

 

[Egon]

I am truly envious of your skills Ken/Oscar. Very, very nice work.

I have some disassembled furniture using trees from our "Farm". It's all in the basement awaiting assembly!

I also have a large amount of sawdust and toothpick material!

 

[K7147]

That's some nice work, Ken. Like Eddie, I think it's cool that the furniture is made from trees out of your own back forty. That's got to add a special something when you use the chair or whatever.

I had put up a few photos on my TBN photo home some time ago and realized that they survived the TBN remake, so they are still there should you be interested.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/photos/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/9570

Cliff

Cliff,

That’s some beautiful furniture you’ve made! I love all the natural wood grain. Yes, it does add something special that the wood mostly came from the property. It’s sort of like a treasure hunt every time I mill out a new log to see what kind of wood grain mom nature has offered. The only problem is that when I discover a highly figural grain in a tree I still have to wait a year or two or more before it’s cured for use.

Ken

P.S. Nice looking pup in the avatar!

 

[K7147]

Nice looking "attatchments" you have there. Do you make these for sale, or just hobby and necessity. I always like it when different colors of wood are used (as in the coffe table). These will be heirlooms one of these days, I bet.

All of the furniture I have made have been gifts to the bride or some close friends. Besides, considering the hours of work (fun) involved I’d be hard pressed to get back more than fifty cents an hour! Woodworking for me has always been strictly a hobby to relieve the stress of operating a business and trying to make a living. Now that I’m retired and have my own forest for materials it’s taken on a whole new dimension of
pleasure.

Ken

 

[K7147]

I am truly envious of your skills Ken/Oscar. Very, very nice work.

I have some disassembled furniture using trees from our "Farm". It's all in the basement awaiting assembly!

I also have a large amount of sawdust and toothpick material!

Hi Egon!

Your photographs look very familiar to me. Wood stickered all over the place and huge piles of sawdust! I think I saw an “Alaskan” saw mill in one photograph? That is what I use as I could not justify the cost of a band-saw mill. Using an “Alaskan” chain saw mill has got to be some of the most brutal work I’ve ever done. You have a nice woodworking operation. That reminds me to “un-sticker” two more stacks of planks from the drying shed so I’ll have material for the wife’s winter “honey-do” list! Have a nice day….

Ken

 

[scott_vt]

Mornin Ken,
Some very nice projects ! I really like your coffee table ! I love makin sawdust, its alot if fun in the winter months. I will try and post some of my projects.

BTW I also made the School House clock above the Curio cabinet.