Uys and Jessica, Reclaimed Chunky Yellow Pine Rustic Table

Uys and Jessica’s Reclaimed, Thick Tabletop, Chunky Yellow Pine,

Rustic Table with Breadboard Ends.

Dimensions:

75″ L x 36″ w x 30″ high

Before Stain Pics:

Stain: MinWax Provincial.

Finish: MinWax Satin Polyurethane.

At new home, awaiting benches. 

Latest Project 2 tables called “Shannon” and “Gauss”

We just finished 2 tables for our client in MD. “Shannon” and “Gauss”.

Shannon is blonde maple:

Gauss is made with reclaimed pine bowling lane wood. The top is ebony, and the bottom unit of apron and legs are a deep brown:

In the pictures you can see craftsman Adam, here’s what he writes about creating these tables.

Gauss, a yellow pine table, was once part of a bowling lane in the Adirondak mountains of upstate New York. I selected an 8′ length, reinforced the underside with steel and then sanded the surfaces. Given the weight of the table I designed a leg frame with cross and diagonal bracing to withstand all forces. The tabletop was stained with ebony and the legs received a brown walnut color. I applied 3 coats of a dull rub finish all around, hand applied and polished in a traditional New England fashion.

Shannon was built from locally harvested maple. I buy all my domestic hardwoods from a mill a few miles from my parents farm in the upper Catskill mountains of upstate. My brother is a blacksmith, a craftsman as well, and I commissioned him to make a set of steel braces which I used to reinforce the slab legs. This table has very smooth, clean lines and to maintain that the braces are completely hidden within the wood. I left the natural wood color and hand coated the table with semi-gloss polyurethane.

 

 

Bowling Lane

Bowling Lane

Old School Planing

Dry Fit

First coat of Stain

 

Lumber

Boards at the shop

Making the brackets for legs

Fitting the legs

Sam and Jade Farm Table

Right now we’re working on a table for Sam and Jade using reclaimed yellow Pine. Pics will be uploaded today and during the week. Stay tuned. Picking the yellow pine from the salvage yard. Apron pieces after sanding and planing. Leg pieces:       Tabletop and Bench:     Test fitting the boards:    

Almost Finished Tabletop.

Bench top

Finished Product. I’m not sure if you can see in these pics, but I love the “burnt like” quality of the wood on the bench. It looks like burnt honey. Very great color.

Spa or Entryway Bench

Gothic Bench

Contemporary Pine Table and 2 benches

It’s been awhile since my last post, we’ve been busy with various projects around the city, and I’m please to welcome Sasha, an excellent woodworker, to the team.
Here are some pics of a rustic contemporary pine table and two benches.

Cool refinishing idea

This is an interesting idea: you take cheap pendant lamps and spray paint to refinish. These are only 20 dollars from ikea.