What are you building with your milled wood? merged

[820wards]

Remember this?

Bob,

Shop looks like a great place to hang out and do some serious wood working. That bench looks real nice, and I'll bet it's real sturdy? I think it's time to do an addition to your shop. :msp_biggrin:

jerry-

 

[Walnut33]

Walnut.

 

[Dave Boyt]

Nice clean design, and the sapwood really frames in the heartwood... and you managed to saw straight through three walnuts that a squirrel had hidden in that hole. What are the chances? I always like to see creative use of "defects" like that void. Nice work!

 

[brookpederson]

A few sign's I've been working on. View attachment 287414View attachment 287415View attachment 287416View attachment 287417View attachment 287418

 

[sachsmo]

Gottra luv that creative "fill job"

Nice, Nice work.

 

[rarefish383]

Yep, like the walnut inclusion, Joe.

 

[820wards]

What We Have Been Making With Our Milled Wood

Bluerider and myself have partnered together to build tables/stools and other smalls for local and Art/Wine Festivals. Here are some of the items we will be making for sale at these festivals.

jerry-

These are cutting boards made from walnut that have a live edge on one edge. The board on the far right shows where the black walnut and the Clairol Walnut were grafted. Center board is sycamore.

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Stool is made from live edge hand carved Black Walnut with custom made steel frame with splayed leg ends. Stool legs also have adjustable levelers and the metal is steel blued.

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Wine side table is made from milled live edge Black Oak. We believe the brown streak at front right edge was caused when the tee was hit by lightening which broke the tree and caused it to come down. I have made the metal frame with adjustable splayed leg ends and is also finished with a steel blue. Future tables will incorporate a wine bottle storage rack system in place of the lower shelf.

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Wine toppers made from various California woods displayed in a piece of spalted Liquid Amber wood.

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Here is Bluerider putting on the final finish on his carved stool seat.

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[7oaks]

Walnut.

Beautiful, creative work!

 

[Brian Harnett]

Maple top Sapele legs the maple I milled from a blowdown from hurricane sandy I am thinking of doing some chairs in this style.

 

[7oaks]

Very, Very nice and creative!!!

 

[PheasantHunter]

Very cool design. I am curious how you dried the wood if it is a blowdown for Sandy, kiln?

 

[brookpederson]

CD cover frames, reclaimed red oak frame W/ spalted silver maple and pheasant painting and a ERC frame for a painting. I can't take credit for the pheasant painting, that's the old man's work.


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[Brian Harnett]

Very cool design. I am curious how you dried the wood if it is a blowdown for Sandy, kiln?

Yes I kiln dried it. after researching kilns I made one using a kerosene torpedo heater and dehumidifier I run the heater the first two days at 140 to kill any bugs and fungus, then switch over to the dehumidifier it takes a month on average to get 8%, I am getting quite a pile of unique wood slabs.

 

[PheasantHunter]

Yes I kiln dried it. after researching kilns I made one using a kerosene torpedo heater and dehumidifier I run the heater the first two days at 140 to kill any bugs and fungus, then switch over to the dehumidifier it takes a month on average to get 8%, I am getting quite a pile of unique wood slabs.

That sounds like a great set-up.

 

[Mike Cantolina]

Maple top Sapele legs the maple I milled from a blowdown from hurricane sandy I am thinking of doing some chairs in this style.

OK, I'll say it. Great legs!

 

[Fallguy1960]

Here is a bench I bench that I built will the scrap slabs. It is patterned after a Leopold bench. This my first attempt at up loading a picture.




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[Dave Boyt]

Nice clean design. I like it! What kind of wood?

 

[gr8scott72]

So a few months ago I built a loft bed out of just some plain pine for my 4 year old daughter. It came out great and she loves it. Even has toy box up top.

Stained with a light color and then about 6 coats of Polycrylic.

Continued in next post.

 

[gr8scott72]

Next, I wanted to build another one for my 2 year old daughter. This time I wanted to make use of some of my red oak slabs. I used my slabs for the sides of the stairs and for the toy box. The rest if the wood was red oak that I bought from Home Depot.

I left the natural edge on the stair rails and the toy box lid.

Finished it with 4 coats of Waterlox. That stuff is AMAZING! Wow does it ever make red oak pop.

 

[cityslicker]

Here is a table I made from a sequoia slab I milled a few years ago. The legs are solid 6"x6" torched fir, It is about six feet long and 4 feet wide.

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