Just some of my tinkering...pics of back porch 2nd buck I shot would need to start hunting again if I want to do another one. Pic frame. Corner curio cabinet. Memory display of G-pas decoys tobacco tin and decanters. Old style dry sink. Mirror frame. Cross my godmother asked me to make for use in her funeral.
Looking good Greenstick. I particularly like the coat hook. I also repurpose a thing or two. I'm hoping to make a barn board with rail spikes for coat hooks in a few weeks. Any piece of rusty, crusty, old metal stuck on a board looks good to me.
Most of the barns in this area are either pine which is usually soft punky unuseable tinder or they are in the cedar family and are greyed outside but once you cut in it is fragrant and just like new. Love working with that stuff. Mama has liked each creation I cobble together for her.
Looks great - like how you kept the original weathered look. Did you use mostly floor boards for all that? There's an old 1870's barn at my sister's house that needs to be taken down. Probably start work on that next year. Lots of awesome timbers in that thing - no idea of the species though, until I saw into them.
Barn siding around here is 99% tulip poplar and is about done by the time you get it off the barn. The timbers can be anything...ever seen a 24" walnut post? Several old barns have them around here.
The curio I used floor boards from a hay mount of a barn. The rest are mostly siding and 2x4. My wife gets frustrated with me and calls me Sanford and Son because of all the junk I drag home. She doesn't complain when I turn that junk into a pretty for her. The kids say if it don't look 100 years old its to modern for us. I call it poor man hillbilly shique.
I've mostly just made picture frames. Some for myself but give a lot away to friends. Made some doors and trim for the stove room down stairs. Built a splitter shed this summer out of recycled barn wood. And to really bore ya...
Love barn wood, managed to save a bunch one time before an old barn was being knocked down. It sat in my garage for the longest time but I finally got around to making something from it.
Awesome stuff there Greenstick, Butcher and all of you! I'm a huge fan of barnwood, tore down an 1860's era barn several years back and used TONS of it inside my house, cased all my structural beams in it for a nice faux weathered beam look. Don't have any pics on my phone if I remember later I'll post some.... I plan on making some picture frames and such but I'm almost out of barnwood. Need to find another barn and tear it down!!
Thanks all for the likes. I think I may have scored a barn that I can scrounge off of. Need to go look but sounds promising. A neat sage almost all weathered off paint was on it. Excited:-D
