Ideas

I agree…. cool stuff!

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

Very cool…..............

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

Super ideas, I sometime find myself looking at things from differnt angles, ideas alway help, thanks.

-- Bob, Lewistown, Montana. Kindness is the Language the blind can see and deaf can hear. - Mark Twain

Thanks for this, Moron. I’m stunned by that endgrain log floor. I’ve marveled at that desk before. Awesome stuff.

-- My dad and I built a 65 chev pick up.I killed trannys in that thing for some reason-Hog

Ideas that’s what LJs is all about.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

I always look at stuff like this and think, “wow, that’s really cool” or “artsy” or “edgy.” When I end up attempting something like that and putting it in my house, it just looks like trash.

Perhaps it’s because such pieces require an overall design scheme/context in which they make sense.

-- Optimists are usually disappointed. Pessimists are either right or pleasantly surprised. I tend to be a disappointed pessimist.

Unfortunately, barn wood isn’t free anymore. It’s EXPENSIVE! But if you’re lucky enough to score some, these are some great ideas!

The pallet one reminded me of when I was a kid, sleeping on a stack of musty pallets behind the old grocery store. Ahhhh- memories!

I have a source for tons of old pallets. But if I made that toddler’s bed with them I’d be picking splinters out of their little hands every night! And as much as I love to see children cry, I have more serious things to pick at with my tweezers…

Live4ever- A photographer can make lots of things look great. But, as you said, in real life it ends up looking like trash. I have a niece that’s a prime example…

-- It's the best woodworking show since the invention of wood... New episodes Wednesdays at: http://www.stumpynubs.com

Those are great pieces. Thanks for sharing the photos

-- Wayne - Plymouth MN

Wow.

As I struggle to get my arms around the “technical” part of woodworking … now … I look at these pictures, and ask myself, “What about the creative side ?”

It’s good to have so much more to learn.

These are great. Thanks for posting them.

-- -- Neil

Nice !

Stumpynubs……..thats why you have to sand it, and finish i : ))

I’m no photographer but this stuff is reclaimed, was worse then any skid, choke full of nails and holes and cracks and bugs………and I’m OK with the end result

they are just ideas, simple, straight forward, inexpensive

-- "Good artists borrow, great artists steal”…..Picasso

Beautiful. Great job on those inlaid keys, too !

-- -- Neil

Dang!!! I will be guilty of design robbery.
Well done.
Bill

-- bill@magraphics.us

Is there any really original design? I often wonder about that. As a software engineer my world is trying to creatively apply principles my father learned fifty years ago to problems that are as old as time. (Yes there are second generation software engineers). I am sure that the chariot makers in Egypt had to figure out what would sell and what wouldn’t and how many to build of what model and how much to charge and who was the best supplier of material etc. I am also sure some old guy was saying, that iPapyrus and reed will never sell.

We have been slicing wood with sharp edges for thousands of years and a box is a box is a box and the greeks figured out how to measure things in harmonious proportions and we have been stealing those ideas ever since. or words to that effect.

-- My mother named me Hamilton, I have been trying to earn my nickname ever since.

Stumpy, a little harsh on the niece there, aren’t you?

-- Michael :-{| Diapers and politicians both need to be changed often; and for the same reason.