| Project by emetric | posted 60 days ago | 443 views | 0 times favorited | 9 comments |  |
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This was a gift for a good friend and his wife, who were expecting their first child. After hearing the good news, I offered to build something for the new baby. This is is actually built from “recycled” material. I was fortunate enough to drive by as someone was throwing out some parts from a solid wood futon frame made of rubberwood. The carcass of this unit is of panel and frame construction, the panels, drawer faces, and drawer boxes are made of birch ply. The frames and top edging are rubberwood. The finish is minwax oil based stain and 3 coats oil based poly.
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jim1953
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posted 60 days ago
Great Lookin Changing table
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Bob A in NJ
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posted 60 days ago
Extremely nice gift!
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BTKS
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posted 60 days ago
Very nice gift. Never heard of rubberwood. What midwest native species would it compare to? BTKS
emetric
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posted 60 days ago
OK I admit it, I don’t know that is exactly rubberwood. But it is the “renewable” wood that solid wood furniture from stores like target is constructed from. I once heard someone refer to it as rubberwood so that is what I have referred to it as ever since.
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Beginningwoodworker
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posted 60 days ago
Great work!
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RexMcKinnon
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posted 59 days ago
I have 2 end tables made from Rubberwood. Do a google and you will see it is an actual tree found in Asia. Wikipedia has an article as well as many other sites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberwood
Nice changing table BTW.
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BTKS
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posted 59 days ago
RexMcKinnon, thanks for the clarification. Really is Rubber Wood.
Dusty56
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posted 59 days ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%A1_rubber_tree
Very nice chest and use of recycled wood: )
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coaltowner
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posted 54 days ago
I like what you have done but the pictures don’t show the detail on the top. more pics please.