Thursday, July 22, 2010

tractor tread bench/table







Yes, you can sit on this. No, the legs won't cave in-- unless you are 500 lbs or so. This table is constructed of cypress, brazilian cherry, spalted poplar, regular poplar, and salvaged heart pine for the legs.



The green chunks down the center are slices from a spalted poplar post retrieved from a lumber yard in Troy, AL. Each piece has a tiny bit missing on one side, so I flip flopped that recessed side. What resulted looked to me like the track for a tractor tire left in the dirt.






44" long, 20" tall, 20" wide.

Gradient bench




After making a desk to fit in a corner as part of another project, I found myself with a lot of rhombus and trapezoid shaped drops. So, I decided to try to maximize what I could do with those odd shapes, and decided to make a color wave out of them.




This table is constructed of walnut, birch, white oak, and maple, with salvaged heart pine legs. 18" tall, 66" long, 37.5" wide.

five woods bench







As the name implies, this bench features five different species of wood. Heart pine, maple, walnut, birch, and cedar, from right to left. The legs are constructed from salvaged 2x12 heart pine chunks which are offset at 22.5 degrees.
The piece of art sitting on the bench is made from cut up license plates and recycled wood scraps. I met a very nice family at Rosemary Beach, FL, that makes these pieces. Don't remember the company name, but I really liked their work.

recycled hall tree


This piece utilizes a leftover glue-up of poplar, a leftover shop chair, some drop cuts after sawing up an old door, some rafter perlins from a dismantled house, some 2x4's, a leftover experimental door pull, and a found towel rack on the back for haning items.

the back rest is off-set to the seated person's right to keep things interesting.

70"tall, 30" wide