Odds and Ends Pieces of Furniture using Mixed Woods

You’re really on a roll today, Dusty. I agree that you have to build it do see if you’re going to like it.

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

great tables.

I agree… I designed a location for the big TV and surrounded it with old barn boards. I thought I’d like it.. but thinking it and seeing it in 3d are two different things. (end result is almost done and I’m loving it)
I’d blog about it but I don’t have any pictures and om would just say that I was making it all up

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

Great design concepts. some cafe tables. You need to go into the restaurant furniture business.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

I particularly enjoy the middle table. I think that part of figuring out what works visually is understanding what does not. Sometimes we just have to go through the motions of finding that out.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

Todd,

Thanks.

Isn’t that funny how sometimes we better know what won’t work or don’t like for that matter only after we build it or see it in person.

I have come to more realizations which l have ead to “discovery s” and many times altered final projects because of building something and not liking the results.

One more reason I use prototypes a lot when designing new pieces of furniture.

In fact that piece you commented on I made first out of pine. I cut the feet out of a 2×8 piece of scrap.

Often I will “dry” fit and use simple mineral spirits to test how the likely out come of a natural piece of wood will look.

When the mineral spirits drys it leave no residue and the wood which was not glued can be reused, reconfigured or repositioned to achieve desired or different results.

For me its is a constant “tweak” process.

-- Dusty

Nice collection of tables Dusty.

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

nice as always…i like the 3rd one the best…contrasting colors of the wood i guess…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

These are really nice, Dusty. I use the mineral spirits all the time to get a preview of the finished product.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Charlie,

Works well doesn’t it ?

What a nice simple inexpensive way to get that preview.

Just one of the many tricks you pick up along the way in woodworking.

-- Dusty

Very nice Dusty,

I also like to make things with a mixture of various wood. Some seem to blend well with together.

I like the third one the best.

-- -** 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

Dick,

You know one thing I found was it takes the “boredom factor” of the simple projects and gives them life.

I also find it very rewarding to “explore” different avenues and applications for the wood and there specific project’s.

-- Dusty

Dusty
I really like your work. Especially the contrasting woods. On the square table’s legs, is the darker wood sandwiched or inlayed?

-- Measure three times, cut twice.