Anyone build their own wood furniture?

[naynay]

that sounds pretty cool. A friend made one like that with a reclaimed front door that is fucking rad. got any pics?

heres a few projects i've done..

this is the fence table..


coffee table on casters from an old shutter window with some 4x4's underneath..


we redid the wood in a trailer at work and i took this home to make a "potters table" stands about 36" tall, just used angle iron for the legs.


a friend-girl had me redo her moms table from her child hood. it was all wood with stains and such, almost 35 years old. i asked for artistic freedom and built a new base and "antiqued" the wood.




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[naynay]

here is a flower box i built for our front porch out of the same trailer we ripped apart at work





my wife and I hand painted these "birch trees" in the baby's nursery



and i've been making these for her and her girlfriends out of whatever left over wood i find laying around. I got a lot of wood!

[naynay]

if anyone wants to know how to "antique" wood, let me know, it works on all wood types

[Chopped54]

You got some of the whitest projects I have ever seen come out of an Obama supporter.....



















.....looks good

[Pro88LX]

nice! I like the whole idea of re-purposing wood for furniture and stuff like that. It always looks way cooler than something you can just go out and buy.

[Vertnut]

Next thing you know he'll be wearing V-neck sweaters with penny loafers.

[MattB]

Do it out of concrete & steel! Here's our coffee table, handmade, slab weighs several hundred pounds:

[naynay]

i got nothin but love for ya matt, but "several hundred pounds?" give me the dimensions and i can tell you how much it weighs.

and as it has been stated i am the darkest republican next to hermann cain

[MattB]

i got nothin but love for ya matt, but "several hundred pounds?" give me the dimensions and i can tell you how much it weighs.

and as it has been stated i am the darkest republican next to hermann cain

47" x 47" x 2"

[Vertnut]

47" x 47" x 2"

Concrete weighs about 150lbs per cubic foot. It will be close to 400lbs.

[stevo]

if anyone wants to know how to "antique" wood, let me know, it works on all wood types

Sandblasting has always worked well for me.

A neighbor up the street had a black walnut tree cut down, by the time I realized they were cutting it down, it was completely butchered, I'd have loved to had some of it to make something, but by that time there was nothing longer than 24" left.

I take shipping pallets and make outside picnic/patio tables from them, usually will break one down and use it to fill the spaces in on another one, use the cross pieces for legs, etc. They work well for a rustic look.

Right now I'm about to make a set of outside chairs from some 36"-40" red oak cross-cuts.

Stevo

[naynay]

break up an SOS pad with distilled vinegar filled to the top of a spray bottle. let it sit over night. lightly scuff any laquers or finsh that may be on the wood and spray your little heart out. thats what gives the antiqued look i used. I learned it from a classic truck site, as part of the whole "faux-tina" craze.