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one legged entry table

Project by wouldi posted 300 days ago 1423 views 1 time favorited 12 comments Add to Favorites Watch

This one-legged entry table is a recycled project. Before the recession hit I had a good resource for reclaimed lumber. A place I formerly worked at took down old barns and turn-of-the-century log homes, and turned them into new log homes and timber framed houses. This is a creation from some of the “cut-offs” that I snatched up. The leg is what I would call old growth red elm which machines wonderfully and carves well too. The top is a chunk of Douglas Fir which I believe was a cut off from a floor joist when floor joists used to be 3-4 inches thick :).... the design is a culmination of many hours of imagining how i could showcase the old holes in the joist, which instead of cutting them out and tossing them I tried to make them a focal point. My intention was to try and make the saw kerfs “point” to the knot.

-- to the endeavor


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lew

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posted 300 days ago

Intriguing Piece!

Good Luck in the contest.

Lew

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MsDebbieP

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posted 300 days ago

this is amazing. I had to look at each picture several times, as i kept getting drawn farther and farther into the design elements and the history. Bravo.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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mtnwild

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posted 300 days ago

Very interesting leg attachment. That is very cool. Think you have something there. Nice!!

-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.

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Todd Thomas

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posted 300 days ago

very cools …great design and work…job well done!

-- Todd, Oak Ridge, TN, Hello my name is Todd and I'm a Toolholic, I bought my last tool 10 days, no 4 days, oh heck I bought a tool on the way here! †

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motthunter

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posted 300 days ago

interesting concept and really cool

-- making sawdust....

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wood_wench

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posted 300 days ago

Creative use of recycled “gold” – I doubt anyone else on the forum has access to red elm for their projects. Good luck in the contest!

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DAN

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posted 300 days ago

a real beauty … hope you enjoyed yourself !

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

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tinnman65

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posted 300 days ago

Very nice table, I like the design of the leg.

-- Paul Sayre Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)

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scottb

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posted 300 days ago

cool. nice design and reuse of some historical lumber…

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

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SCOTSMAN

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posted 300 days ago

It’s one legged ok. I’m lost here sorry Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

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Dick, & Barb Cain

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posted 300 days ago

Avery unique object, & quite an imagination.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

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SawdustbyJake

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posted 291 days ago

Hi, I found this site on Facebook. It’s cool to see that there is so much going on out there.
When we go to the doctor for blood work, does he / she check for the sawdust content?

-- Jake, OH, www.sawdustbyjake.com

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