The Re-potting Bench

I’m REally RElishing this treasure!!
What a wonderful story behind this table. Love it

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Wow that turned out beautiful.. It looks brand new… Great Work

This is a REsounding success! When one REalizes just how close this came to being RElinguished to the scrap heap, ones heart REbounds with REspect for your rescue mission.

Seriously nice project.

Our city has an annual hard rubbish day each year where people place stuff from their house out on the roadside and the council removes it free. But before the council trucks ever get there, used furniture scavengers, and recyclers troll through the stuff lining the roadways for things of value. And I know there are a few of us poor woodworkers looking for furniture-grade wood, because I’m one of them.

Great story, Rob.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

great job, and great to keep it (some of it, at least) out of the landfill.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Vincent Van Gogh -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

hey Don—- that’s REscue mission :) Great sentence.

I just found out today that in our county that they have a by-law AGAINST picking up someone’s trash—once it goes to the curb it belongs to the city I guess .. and if you are caught taking something you can be charged!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I guess you still have ample room for landfill up in the great white north?... Pick-up trucks roving the street on trash day is quite common in these parts, I say bless them, and let them have whatever they can really use.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Vincent Van Gogh -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I have no idea… unless they take it and sell stuff to make money, it doesn’t make sense.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Thanks everyone for the resounding comments!

Ms Debbie,
I don’t think we have any such laws here and I would have even asked to take it had the house not been abandond too.

Scott, I kept almost all of it except for the rotted parts, what couldn’t work it’s way back into the bench will someday serve another purpose.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

we have brilliant people making the red tape around here, I guess. .. I just shake my head.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Rob,

Great project! Recycling at its best.

You never mention the kind of metal the top is made from. Is it copper?

-- Ethan, http://www.merganserwoodworks.com, http://greystonegreen.blogspot.com/

Thanks Ethan. I don’t know much about metal but it’s certainly not copper, that bronze color comes from the rust. I guess it’s just regular metal, fairly thick and sturdy though.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

I was asking because my wife wants me to make her a potting table for our garage, and I thought a copper sheet top would look great.

Of course, the price of copper sheeting might make that cost-prohibitive.

The bench looks great, regardless.

-- Ethan, http://www.merganserwoodworks.com, http://greystonegreen.blogspot.com/

Maybe you can use sheet metal instead? While it would not have the color of copper, it could give you that metal top you were looking for.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Sheet metal, I suppose that could be the technical name for the metal used on this piece, although it’s slightly thicker than most sheet metal I’ve encountered. The edges bent over make it look thicker than it is, but I would be hard pressed to bend them flat.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

What a great repotting bench! Nice design and nice work!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)