Wood Counter - Kitchen
 What a fun project! While the pictures show a bit of construction dust, they're still fun to see. Here's a complete kitchen full of reclaimed wood countertops -- Red Oak to be exact. The wood came from the floor joists and secondary studs from an old log cabin. The log cabin was saved as a log cabin, but we were blessed with the opportunity to re-use the old dimensional lumber. The wood dated back the the 1800s with a wonderful, unique patina. When I first saw this batch, I knew it was going to be special.  This kitchen has classic looking sage green and ivory painted cabinets accented with rich auborn and brown tones of the red oak wood countertops. It's a wonderful kitchen for those who love to cook -- full size stainless steel appliances, several sinks, and a stove water top. It has a nice pass-thru for serving on the eating island. A classic hutch also helps set the tone. We even cut out a special area on one of the countertops so a cutting board and a marble pasty board could be inserted and interchanged. It's well worth your while to browse the full set of pictures. Of course, our client Abby, is thrilled. Here's a few excerpts from her emails, July 5th, "The last counter arrived several weeks ago and it is beautiful. Thank you....the counters are amazing." Sept 28 (with pictures), "we continue to be grateful to you for the gorgeous work." I've always said I had a great job. This is why! Labels: Wood Countertop
Wood Countertop-Wine
 Normally, I patiently wait for photos from our clients of our finished pieces in their home. I couldn't wait on this one. This is a really neat piece. It's a wood countertop, well actually a wood bartop, with a wine barrel stave leading edge. The edge is accented with original square nails from an old granary. The center hosts a wine barrel inlay where you can still see the red wine stains. Finally, an end-grain block rests in the center of it all. The wine barrel staves come from California and the wood came from an old corn crib in Minnesota.  This was a fun, iterative process with our client. (see the picture set to look at some of the mock ups). The initial conversation ended with "something interesting in a 5 foot wide wood counter with an arc peaking at 24 inches and starting at 16 inches on each side." We played with Google SketchUp to mock up many different variations. We played with pickle vat wood, plain old white oak, an inlay here and an inlay there. This is the result. Turns out that the natural bend in the barrel staves was nearly a perfect fit for this 16 to 24 inch arch over 5 feet. What beautiful stroke of luck. An of course, what better way to enjoy a glass of wine than on a neat piece of reclaimed wood like this? Labels: Wood Countertop
Tablelegs.com
 We do most of our work from end-to-end. We dismantle some buildings, build great custom tables (among everything else), finish them in our shop, and then ship 'em whole to the customer. The other day, we had a customer order a 36 by 77 inch white oak table top that was 1 inch thick. They didn't want the legs, just the top. We got chatting a bit and it turns out that they ordered their base from fellow woodworking company called Classic Designs by Matthew Burak or TableLegs.com
 This made a lot of sense to us. Our customers, Debbie and Ron, specifically wanted painted turned legs. It seems silly to paint over great old wood. In addition, it's a pretty challenging to turn old legs and maintain an interesting old look. Some of the absolutely stunning beauty of our reclaimed wood is, as they say, "only skin deep." As you cut into the wood to turn it, you loose the patina, original woodworker marks, and other character that really make it interesting. So why not, purchase a table base from tablelegs.com and then purchase the top from Antique Woodworks.
 Antique Woodworks crafted the white oak tabletop from old 2-by-8 floor joists from an old 1880s granary. This particular granary has provided a lot of splendid wood for many of our furniture projects lately. Anyway, we removed what square nails we could, then straightlined and planed the boards to just the right size -- dinging our share of blades in the the process. But such is the game with the old wood. With just the right amount of sanding, the beautiful color, nice tight grains, and character all come to life beautifully. Finally, we finished the top with a coat of Rubio Monocoat. Debbie and Ron worked carefully to create distressed, antiqued finish for their tablelegs.com table base. Then, ordered a completed white oak table top from us. They picked up the top and then assembled the whole thing together. It was a nice do-it-yourself project with great results. They did a really nice job. With a set of pictures from the Debbie, we also got the feedback we so love to hear, "It turned out just like we thought it wood. We love it. Thanks so much for being patient with us through the process of making decisions."
Labels: farm tables
Three Tables
A conference room table, a side table, and a farm table all made from reclaimed wood from a barn, a log cabin, and a granary. It's amazing what this old wood has to say when put the right hands. A more complete set of pictures is posted in this photo album.  The first is a white oak farm table that has now found a new home in Wisconsin. The legs are from the first row of timbers from an old log cabin. They were hand-hewn on 2 sides and rounded, hewn-pealed on the other two sides. The end-grain of the legs comes through the table top, while the bolts to the supports are capped over with original log cabin pegs. The legs are accented with an old rusty iron silo bands. The triangular feet were designed to go along with the many other triangles on the bench and fireplace mantel. The tabletop itself was made from old floor joists from a granary. The joists had been planed and sanded just enough to make things smooth, but also give nice color. And the client says.... "Perfect! Heavy enough too - sheesh!" (yes, it probably was near 400 pounds.)  The second table is quite a departure from our typical tables -- much more formal, much more refined. That comes with good reason. This Rock Elm table was created by a highly skilled woodworker -- Randy Griffin from Greenfield, Indiana which is just outside Indianapolis. Going on it's 3rd life, it's hard to imagine that this wood started out it's second as a gray old log cabin. Randy says, "The end grain is really stunning, and I designed that in where I could... I would like to use the rock elm again... it is beautiful." The clean light colored straight grains on the surface accented with a more plain sawn stretcher. Things worked out beautifully with this one. Finally, we come to one of my favorite tables. This  four-by-nine foot conference room table with a farm style flair has a wonderful old white oak plank top accented with a original bolts and unique, exposed end-grain pedestals. Each pedestal was created by combining four 7x7 beams together into a single post. This created a much more massive scale and let us create this great end-grain panel on the tabletop. The individual beams were heavily sanded so that they would blend nicely with one another, yet retain some circle saw marks and some original flowing shape from the tree. The posts demonstrate the great variance colors that come naturally on the old white oak. And here's what the client says, "I love the table! It is exactly what I envisioned and what I wanted.It was a challenge getting it off the delivery truck but we did it.... Thanks for creating such a beautiful piece." More information on this table is available in the farm tables section of the site. Labels: farm tables
Wood Countertop - Oak
 More pictures from clients. This one comes from a client near Chicago, Illinois. It's a wood countertop, or bar top, made from reclaimed white oak. It features a "live" edge full of character. The edge is particularly nice because it has lots of worm trails on it as well the irregular edge line. The top surface is what we'd consider more conservative in that it's a pretty clean interior cut from a beam. The top is a great accent to the faux stone bar sides.  This picture shows how this countertop started it's life. This little stick was about 18 feet long, 13 inches wide, and 6 inches thick. The first half of this old granary sill beam had already been used on another table top. We slab this piece out about 3 times more and off to the kiln it went After being in the kiln, we began to saw, plane, and glue pieces together. We made the countertop as one long piece originally. It was eventually cut and glued to create the 45 degree turn. Finally, the sanding started. We  sanded and sanded some more. We filled some holes with epoxy and sanded even more. After quite a bit of sanding, we finally arrived at something like the picture below. After the sanding was complete, we applied 5 coats of Waterlox Tung Oil and we were ready to ship. If you're interested, there's several more pictures to browse. For other countertops, take a look at the wood countertops section of the website. Labels: Wood Countertop
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