Finished!

ahhh, that was refreshing. I needed a project like this to help me refocus on what I was doing and what I want to do. This serviced it's purpose nicely and I ended up with a nice looking table. Only problem I have now is that I have 4 young kids who would probably shorten the life expectancy of this table. So I will be looking for a good home for this table. If you are seriously interested contact me . Let me know what you think. thanks....bt

Barnwood Update

It's been a few weeks since I started on this project. I have actually been making some progress, slow and steady wins the race. For those who don't already know I decided to make a nice hall table using a piece of barnwood for the top. I won't go into all the details regarding the top. Here's the basic rundown for the piece. It's about 50" wide, 14" deep and 30" tall. The base is made of solid hard maple. Has tapered legs. Houses 3 drawers and is painted flat black. After cutting and machining all the parts I did some pre-assembly finishing and today (with the help of 3 of my kids) I was able to assemble the base. I still need to build the drawers and construct the drawer runners. There is alittle work left to do on the top but not much. A little more flat black finish, some more assembly, and she'll be good to go. Hopefully have it all wrapped up and ready for unveiling by the end of April. Stay tuned...

bt

Time to refocus!

I have been busy lately (which is a good thing) but...I feel the need to refocus. So I'm starting a new project. I don't want it to be a long drawn out project, just something relatively quick that I can zoom in on. Design, build, finish, and be done. So here is my plan....I came across some old barnwood recently which I intended to use here at the house for some wainscoting. Well scratch that Idea. While sorting through the 23 boards a few of them "spoke" to me. Since I am not one to ignore talking wood. I selected one board about 3/4" thick, 11 1/2" wide by 8' long. As soon as I saw it I had the end product visualized in my head. So here it is. A single piece of barnwood, once standing un-noticed in a crowd of hundreds. Slowly aging, turning gray, as the years passed it by. Well no more, it's time to shine! Follow along as I turn this 100 yr old "barn-siding" into a one of a kind piece of furniture.

bt