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Okie Boarder Ladies Man
Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond
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Posted: Aug 04, 2015 5:13 am Post subject: Farmhouse / Harvest Table |
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For our new house, my wife really wants a farmhouse / harvest table. Do we have some good wood workers on here? Have any of you built one? Have any suggestions or plans? She really wants true reclaimed wood, at least for the top. It looks like we've found a pretty cool source here locally that sells the oak planks out of truck trailers.
http://oklahomacity.craigslist.org/mat/5134872413.html
We feel like that would work well for the top. Our oldest is in his second year of wood shop, so this could potentially become his project for the year that he could enter in the annual competition. We are a little limited at the moment for tools, but have most of the typical hand tools and portable power tools.
Anyhow, thoughts and ideas would be much appreciated.
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Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 531 City: Huntsville, AL
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Posted: Aug 04, 2015 6:36 am Post subject: |
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I have been building my own furniture for about 1 year now and had great success with this website for plans. They are fairly easy to follow and designed to be inexpensive. Here is a farmhouse table I found in a quick Google search... http://ana-white.com/2012/11/plans/farmhouse-table-updated-pocket-hole-plans
You can always change the dimensions for the size table/dimensional lumber you use. Search also for "barn wood" when looking for lumber. There is a local builder to me that uses reclaimed barn wood and I think they sell it as well. I found them on Craigslist.
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Posted: Aug 04, 2015 7:46 am Post subject: |
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You're worried to death about Monsanto and GMO's but more than happy to make your kitchen table(what you eat on) out of decking from truck trailers?
Did it ever occur to you what may have spilled on that wood over the decades it has been hauling stuff around? You do know wood is pourous, right?
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Okie Boarder Ladies Man
Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond
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Posted: Aug 04, 2015 7:57 am Post subject: |
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core-rider, thanks for the link.
eeven73, just one idea...we're also looking at other reclaimed wood sources like barn wood. If we used the truck trailer wood, we would do a varnish of some sort to seal it.
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Okie Boarder Ladies Man
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Posted: Sep 29, 2015 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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The project is set and our son is planning it out. He has picked a design out of the ideas my wife likes. He is planning to do the top with the truck trailer wood, edged with a full picture frame look of another wood...he is leaning towards cherry or maybe an exotic. He's planning to have the corners of the top mitre cut at 45* to surround the middle boards. We're looking forward to seeing how it turns out...should be a great project for him. We'll probably be getting the reclaimed wood soon, and the rest will be ordered through his wood shop teacher.
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ontrider Ladies Man
Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 16491 City: Russia
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Posted: Sep 29, 2015 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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eeven73 wrote: | Did it ever occur to you what may have spilled on that wood over the decades it has been hauling stuff around? You do know wood is pourous, right? |
I thought these tables looked cool until I read this ^^^
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Posted: Oct 24, 2015 10:27 am Post subject: |
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ontrider wrote: | eeven73 wrote: | Did it ever occur to you what may have spilled on that wood over the decades it has been hauling stuff around? You do know wood is pourous, right? |
I thought these tables looked cool until I read this ^^^ |
When the wood is cleaned and a finish is applied I would not be too concerned. I just picked up maple block that was a floor at a former chrysler plant. I'm building side tables, my buddy is building his kitchen counters out of these.
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Posted: Oct 24, 2015 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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nmballa - That is INCREDIBLE! Those will be beautiful. Please post pictures after.
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Posted: Oct 25, 2015 9:58 am Post subject: |
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nmballa wrote: | ontrider wrote: | eeven73 wrote: | Did it ever occur to you what may have spilled on that wood over the decades it has been hauling stuff around? You do know wood is pourous, right? |
I thought these tables looked cool until I read this ^^^ |
When the wood is cleaned and a finish is applied I would not be too concerned. I just picked up maple block that was a floor at a former chrysler plant. I'm building side tables, my buddy is building his kitchen counters out of these. |
Amazing, the whole Bubb Rubbing world is beside themselves about Gluten cross contamination, the residual formaldehyde in plywood, radon from granite countertops, VOC from latex paint and on and on. Yet, super excited about making a kitchen table our of the flooring of an automotive plant.
There is a science to varnishes and sealers. Dont assume that polyurethane from Lowes is a barrier against, what I have to imagine, are a host of industrial chemicals.
Just bizarre.
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Okie Boarder Ladies Man
Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond
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Posted: Oct 26, 2015 7:03 am Post subject: |
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nmballa, very cool. That's some interesting wood.
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ontrider Ladies Man
Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 16491 City: Russia
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Posted: Oct 27, 2015 5:51 am Post subject: |
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My countertops have radon in them!?
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chavez Ladies Man
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Posted: Oct 27, 2015 7:08 am Post subject: |
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ontrider wrote: | My countertops have radon in them!? |
Yep. If a spider walks across your counter, then bites you, you will gain superpowers and be able to climb walls and stuff.
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ontrider Ladies Man
Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 16491 City: Russia
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Posted: Oct 28, 2015 10:12 am Post subject: |
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Good thing we're renovating right now. Pulling out all the granite and putting in new laminate!
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eeven73 PityDaFool Who Posts This Much
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Posted: Oct 28, 2015 11:59 am Post subject: |
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Make sure you have the formaldehyde levels of the particle board underneath the laminate checked.
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Posted: Oct 29, 2015 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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Okie Boarder wrote: | nmballa, very cool. That's some interesting wood. |
^^^
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Posted: Oct 30, 2015 10:05 am Post subject: |
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hehe
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Posted: Nov 04, 2015 11:58 am Post subject: |
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ontrider,
Didn't you just reno? Same time I did?
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ontrider Ladies Man
Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 16491 City: Russia
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Posted: Nov 04, 2015 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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Bam, I'm not putting in laminate
But yeah, I reno'd a fair amount of my house and then sold it a few months ago. Now I have even more house to reno.
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Bambamski Wakeboarder.com Freak
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Posted: Nov 04, 2015 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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I have a hard time thinking I'll ever reno again.... If I ever did, I would never live through it again.
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