Walnut Farm Table

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This is a 3 board table made for a customer that has book matched outer boards. You can see the process of lining the boards up so the grain and figuring will be symmetrical.

Glueing up process...

Finished Product

Old Barn Reclaimed Heart Pine Table

 This project started with old barn wood from Montgomery, AL

 Next we laid them out in the order that was most pleasing to the customer...

 Once the glue had dried, we hand sanded the top to keep the old mill marks but also keeping it smooth to the touch. You can usually tell if wood is old or new by the "mill marks". Woodmills from the past used circular saws to rip lumber, which in turn left circular marks. If you look below you can see the saw marks have an arch in them. Modern mills use large bandsaws which leave a vertical mark.

Finished table in their home. 

Step Stools

One of my son's favorite things to carry around the house is a stepstool I made for him to brush his teeth and climb into the bed at night. These are simple and cheap and are alot easier (and better looking) than lugging a ladder out of the garage!

The inlay is curly-maple and the body is walnut. Finished with boiled linseed oil.

I left the circular saw marks on the top to give it that rustic/reclaimed look.





New Farm Table

A four-plank black walnut table. If you look closely (the pictures can be enlarged by clicking them) the outside boards are bookmatched and the inner two boards are bookmatched! All the lumber came from the SAME TREE!

         The legs and skirt are made from Red Oak, very strong have a great grain pattern when shellaced, painted and distressed.

Hell, we even made a bench from the last plank of the tree!

The customer saw the set of benches I had put on this blog and said I want the same ones! 8) 

Pottery Barn Benchwright Coffee Table

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Another copy of overpriced, sub-quality Pottery Barn furniture. Made with Heart Pine from a barn that was torn down 3 months ago in Jefferson County, Alabama.

Started as 3 planks like this...

Next, we form a game plan...

Get parts made...

Then fashion the top...

Final result will look like...

Ill show you the finished product here in a bit...

Walnut Table Benches

Most of my projects have stemmed from customers saying they are looking for something similar to what they saw in Restoration Hardware or Crate and Barrel type magazines. This pair of benches falls into that category. The customer was looking for something similar to the "Toscana Bench" from Pottery Barn. The bench looks like this...

After the customers decided on size and color we started making them a pair of these...

This is after the first coat of Danish Oil

Final coat...

Black Walnut Breakfast Table

Another Farm Table styled table with distressed black painted bottom.

Figured Walnut top made of only 3- 15" boards!





Live-Edge Cypress Table

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Some of you know I have been making farm tables, mantles and coffee tables for the last couple years. In that time I have found a type of table that I just love making. They are called Live-edge or Nakashima style tables. George Katsutoshi Nakashima (May 24, 1905 – June 15, 1990) was a Japanese-American woodworker, architect, and furniture maker who was one of the leading innovators of 20th century furniture design and a father of the American craft movement. George was, like many Japanese-Americans, placed into a interment camp in the 40's. During his time there, he was mentored by an older woodworker who showed him how to use wood in a more natural, organic form. The live-edge table was born. Here are some examples of Nakashima's work.

Here is my last one made for some ATL friends of mine...

It is made of sinker Cypress from the Chipola River. It was made of 2 pieces of cypress slabs, one pictured here.

When joined together, stained and finished, the top looks like this...