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  1. Underneath ugly carpet and layers of paint, our 100 year old floors

    A lovely summer project with the roommates, refinishing the floors of our 1913 home (well, we rent, and though plenty of other things are falling apart, we just couldn't take another day with that awful carpet!). Said good riddance to the carpet, scraped away years and layers of paint, sanded...
  2. Rustic Wooden Flags

    What was new is now old again. On a Flag kick lately, trying different techniques for aging wood. The colored flag is a different flag/different technique.
  3. A Newly Born "Antique" Box

    A couple of months ago, I was reading Sheila Landry's blog entries (as I do most every day) and became very interested in a box she antiqued using paint and some really wonderful stenciling techniques. It got me thinking. What would it take to create an item that would look perfectly at home...
  4. Buffet/Hutch

    I've been wanting to use milk paint to create a look like this for a few years. Just an mdf buffet/hutch that I got from craigslist. It was white to start off. I primed it first. Using General Finishes "milk" paint I painted it red twice in the areas I thought I might reveal later. I then...
  5. Something old something new -

    It was in bad shape moldy an weathered, i repaired applied vinegar sanded and repeated condition and then used , 6 different stains I conditioned the wood mixed my colors, taped it off stained and restained sanded and so on followed up w tung oil I applied 8 diff coats I didn't have any trouble...
  6. Rustic bench

    Rustic bench. Made from all new materials, artifically aged by my hands. Pine, natural pigment, the length of this bench - 6 ft.
  7. 2-Tone Bocote Bear

    This is a unique toy made from exotic Bocote wood. I start with 12mo+ aged Bocote from my local MacBeath Hardwood store and I use a smoothing hand-plane to remove the band-saw marks from one side (leaving intact the dark aged surface). I then use a router and surfacing sled to mill the other...
  8. Audio Cabinet

    This is an audio cabinet that I made for a friend of mine. His home was decorated with fishing memorabilia and everything in the room where this cabinet was placed has a kind of rustic look so I used a poly/stain blend because it usually leaves darker streaks when brushed particularly in...
  9. Art and Crafts / Mission Style Table Lamp

    I built this lamp to replace the log lamp (see previous project). My wife never liked the previous lamp, so I thought I'd build her a new one for her birthday. I call this "arts and crafts" and/or "mission style" although I'm using a non-traditional wood for the lamp: jatoba finished with...
  10. Replica of the old window from the tavern of Riga

    Saw this window in internet. I've posted this picture which I saw in internet. Very liked it for it's elegance, old looking, and decided to make it's replica. Because in the old times all boats ships and stuff for them was made from cedar - I've made the same. So there are the matherials - cedar...
  11. Paddle switch

    That is the paddle That is the switch board That is the Paddle Switch It fits my table like this It costed me about a dollar. Yard sale switches. Scrap wood etc.
  12. "MEDIEVAL" - white oak and wrought-iron coffee table

    Another blend of metal and wood-work. The concept was a medieval piece - I wanted the wood to look like it came off a castle door. Distressed white oak, ebonized with "liquid nightmare" or steel wool disolved in vinegar to make a ferrous solution which reacts with the tannins in the oak and...
  13. Reclaimed wood table

    Table top is made from 60+ year old long-leaf pine, legs are made from rough cut cedar. My brothers and I did a lot of renovations on our old farm house and this was the original flooring from a looooooooong time ago. We found it underneath a layer of linoleum AND a layer of fake hard wood...
  14. Rustic shelf with cedar cross

    Rustic shelf. New wood, pine, hand carved. Cedar cross on the top. Natural wood finish. Natural ropes, leather. Hand forged nails.
  15. Rustic Wood Harley Davidson Signs with Bullet holes

    I made these Harley Davidson signs on my CNC router. I wanted the signs look like they are old worn and Rustic. As you can see in the pictures, they are. I found the wood for the first sign on the side of the road. Brung it home, and came up with my design. This piece was already stained, so I...
  16. Finishing
    Hi, I have been doing some research on finishing Poplar and ran across some stuff on "Sun Tanned Poplar". Particularly the items found on this website http://monkwoodstudio.com/. On one entry he says that tanning the Poplar in the sun for a day will give it this effect.. I am new to this so I...
  17. Woodworking Skill Share
    What is the usual sand paper grit progression. Ex: 120, 180 & 220. Thanks
  18. Finishing
    I have a friend that asked me how to get a crackled look onto the finish of his guitar. He is trying to make the guitar look older without damaging it. The only way we know how to get that crackle look is cycle the wood between hot and cold temperatures, and that would take forever. However I...
  19. Wood & Lumber
    I am helping a "retired" woodworking parent with removing unused raw materials from his woodshop and thought of LumberJocks as a possible venue to post the hardwood lumber material we have to see if there is an interested buyer in the active woodworking community in Long Island, New York. I am...
  20. Finishing
    I would like help with suggestions on what to do with our piano. See the photos. First, what type of wood do you think it is from the photos? Second, as you can see from the close up of the top the wood is very dry and dull looking. Whatever I do it will be done where it stands as I don't...
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