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Repurposed construction site lumber into sofa table...

Project by SawDustnSplinters posted 433 days ago 1316 views 0 times favorited 11 comments Add to Favorites Watch

Well….I have graduated from wheelchair to walker and now to a cane once in a while since my dodge the deer accident…so got to get those orders out! I actually had a lady come in and show me a picture of a sofa table she liked and right off the bat I knew it was that rustic mexican pine stuff that has saturated Texas and the SouthWest over the years. So relunctantly I said I would do it, money talks :) Well anyway for now I live on 300 acres right next to a new sub-division coming up across the tracks from me. So instead of going to my local lumber yard I went and picked up enough throw-away pine over there to do what she wanted. Save the environment, right?...Anyway this sofa table is made entirely out of reclaimed construction lumber except for the cowhide :)
2×4 and 4×4,s….it’s dimensions are 30” H x 18”D x 48”W, I used 1” mortise and tenon’s on legs and aprons. I took a hand planer and set it at 3/16” and skipped it across the surface of all faces to rustify it, threw the hammer at a few times, beat it with a rusty chain lightly, etc…I used BriWax with rustic pine tint…..Heck I think it looks authentic? hehe….My shop mouser “Cali” likes it I think?

-- Frank, Little River/Academy, Texas , http://www.allthingsrustix.com


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TreeBones

1557 posts in 921 days


posted 433 days ago

First class reclaimed project and a great first project after the deer. Onward and upward. Well done.

-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3 http://www.portablesawmill.biz/concrete/

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brianinpa

1365 posts in 621 days


posted 433 days ago

Looks great and envirnmentally friendly.

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

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SawDustnSplinters

224 posts in 679 days


posted 433 days ago

Thanx ya’ll, just glad to still be here, Thank God! I hope they have an LJ’s in heaven cause if they don’t I do not want to bite the bullet….at least not yet… :)

Be Well, and watch out for deer on dark, county back roads…..

-- Frank, Little River/Academy, Texas , http://www.allthingsrustix.com

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DAN

6456 posts in 881 days


posted 433 days ago

Very nice… I’m ready to order some barrel staves and thanks again for the skull face hide.

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

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woodworm

8310 posts in 489 days


posted 433 days ago

Great project after the mishap.
Not sure what your cute friend is thinking. Any one knows?

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

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Dick, & Barb Cain

7044 posts in 1197 days


posted 433 days ago

Very nice!

I think way to much wood is hauled to the landfills, They should start making an attempt to save some of it.

-- -** 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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Mike

268 posts in 515 days


posted 433 days ago

I took some fog lights and mounted them on my front bumper. I aimed them to cover the edges of the road. I turned them on when driving at night where the deer are, you can actually see the deer stop when hit with the lights but they stop about 20 feet out off the road.

It worked never had one dart out and stop in my headlights.

Great looking table by the way. I have an old upright Piano, it would take 700-1,000 dollars to repair and tune. I don’t play piano, the bench is worth more, It came with the house I am figuring out how to dismantle and remake it into something else.

-- Measure once cut twice....oh wait....ooops.

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CharlieM1958

7670 posts in 1116 days


posted 432 days ago

Nice job!

I’m thinking you could start your own special niche marketing furniture made from that throw-away lumber from that subdivision. The lumber would be free, so the profit margin would go way up!

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

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Lee A. Jesberger

3710 posts in 877 days


posted 432 days ago

Hi Frank;

I’m glad to hear you’re getting around a bit better now.

I think if I was you I would be out hunting deer instead of working in the shop.

Sometimes I wonder if deer have a “people season”.

Nice project. Stay well;

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

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daveintexas

338 posts in 774 days


posted 430 days ago

Good looking table Frank, and glad to hear you are getting around better.

BTW- I am just up the road from you, (outside of Waco), so if you ever need anything, give me a shout.

Thanks for posting

-- MISSION FURNITURE-My mission is to build furniture

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tooldad

456 posts in 613 days


posted 429 days ago

The only thing I have heard and encountered also, is that construction grade lumber has a higher moisture content, closer to 10-12 percent, like air dried lumber. Take that into consideration when gluing panels.

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