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Originally Posted by Iowanian
I like to build things out of wood, but I'm a shit finish carpenter. I've built some pine log beds with my brothers and build things out of old stuff more than the fine quality finished things I've seen from some of you over the years.
My power tools for woodwork are old and sad. I don't have half of what I need to do things the right way for finishing wood.
The coolest thing I've worked on was a project for a mentor...I helped him build a wooden canoe made of 1" strips of wood.
My next two planned projects are barn wood related. I plan to build a chandelier for our table and I'm debating between a design using old barn wood, making a shadow box with a flat, rough piece with wires hanging old jars over LED lights or one made with barn trolleys and a couple of old lanterns. Wiring them right is my biggest concern because I'm worse with electricity than fine cut corners.
I also am planning a "railroad cart" style table. I cut some large cat iron wheels off an old safe and want to built a barn wood coffee table out of that.
Additional projects I'd like to do include a free hanging mantle for a large bland wall made out of rough cut beams or old barn beams. I'm also planning to fire up the welder and do some shitty welding to make some 2-3' dinosaurs out of a big pile of old rust wrenches I've picked up along the way.
Maybe I'm just better at these projects because they're supposed to look like hell on the corners.
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That barn wood stuff is hot! I ****ed up when I gave a bunch of it away just wanting it gone and out of my way! It was true old Nebraska barn 1 inch thick material. I bet you have access to a lot of it up there, right?
I am 100% convinced that your finished product is going to be related to your tool capability multiplied by how much time you have.
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Originally Posted by notorious
I just finished 2 white oak floors today! One has Special Walnut stain and the other is Early American.
I like white oak better than red. For one, the grain is usually a little tighter, two, the color is is more of a neutral brown instead of a redish color to start.
Little known fact: Most prefinished oak floor is white oak, not red even though red is a lot more popular for everything else.
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That has to be quite a challenge doing those natural floors. Do you buy it from places like lumber liquidators?
I wish we hadn't have gone with laminate in 2012 when we built this place, but that was all we could swing. It isn't holding up for shit here on the lake.