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Someone recently asked me when making (Rustic) furniture what was my favorite part of the process.
The answer to this question often changes depending on the job and of course my mood that day.
After thinking about this question, my answer is milling or planing reclaimed barn wood lumber. This is very labor intensive but when you run barn wood through a planer, removing all of the weathered and rotting outer layer, it is like unwrapping a present. I never know what I am going to find on the exit side of the planer. Often, it’s a happy surprise, discovering beautiful wood character and an amazing unmatched color that only comes from really old lumber.
When I started in this business, and when barn wood wasn’t so “COOL” this is the wood that most farmers were throwing into the wood pile to later become fuel for a bonfire.
I am attaching a video that tries to depict my answer. The video doesn’t really give it justice due to the lighting. I also wished I could show the board once an oil finish is applied. Maybe I can make a new video with that step added.
As always, thank you for your support, and thank you for sharing.
Shou Sugi Ban!!!
Making new tables for Ono Brewery in Chantilly
Wood is 100 year old reclaimed spruce. Reclaimed from Arlington home.
IT HAS NEW LIFE!!!!
Here is a quick slideshow video of my latest build. a 46" square coffee table made from barn wood (from tongue and groove wall boards from the Hicklin Barn). The wood will now carry on for another hundred years or more!!!
Here is a quick look at the Millboro barn demo. More to come. Photos and more info about the barn is in the previous post.
Thanks to Ryan Roth for his awesome help!
