Matt’s Weekly Shop Update – Dec 6, 2016

Viewer Projects

Walnut Desk with Live Edge by Ross

Homemade Oak Flooring by Andy

I had emailed with you a little over a year ago about how you did your flooring and it inspired me to do my own. I started with a single 120sq ft room and it went great. It did take some time to mill that many boards from 4/4 other 5/4 to 11/16 (due to some warped boards) but it was fun and I am really excited about the outcome. Here are a few pictures of the result.

It is mostly red oak with a few white oak tossed in. Boards are 6 to 9 inches wide and about half of them run the full 11 foot width of the room. I stained them with a cherry stain and finished with 2 coats of a water based polyurethane.

Reclaimed Wood Dining Table by Pete

I recently had an opportunity to salvage some lumber from a house that had been built here in St. Louis in 1882 (which means the wood is…potentially upwards of 200 years old?!). The roof had collapsed into the basement, taking most of the internal structure with it, so the owner had the house demo’d. Before the demo guy got started – like, by literally 2 hours – I grabbed everything I could get to (mostly 2x8s) that wasn’t entirely rotten or super dangerous to try and reclaim. I got just enough to build a 6’x3′, 36″ tall dining table. It’s nothing fancy, but anybody that’s ever dealt with reclaimed wood can vouch for the challenge of getting things square(ish), flat(ish), good mortise/tenon fits, etc. without removing the wood’s character.

website: http://www.petepagano.com
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Making the Logo Sign:

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