Furniture from our waste

Beautiful! I wonder how they do the pieces that the top and legs are all made from the same plank. Must be a super thin blade on a saw, super slow at a perfect angle.

So cool. Those tables with the rocks in them - every child would be mesmerized by trying to get them out - handprints all over the glass!
 
Nice group of photographs, Roger. It is sad when a giant such as that is removed, but there is no doubt of the beauty within that tree. Perhaps more beautiful and functional for EVERYONE from the outside while it is alive, yet still beautiful and functional for SOMEONE now...No disrespect. Nice work.
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Cool thread Tom very interesting and nice work Roger on that sequoia, very BIG indeed good to know it went to be turned into a masterpiece(s) that can be admired for years to come. Excellent.
 
I've had some of my takedowns milled with wany edges...bark-edge. I like the look.

My bookshelves came from one burr oak log. They are arranged in order as they came out of the log, top to bottom. No one is likely to ever notice unless they are really into milling and lumber though. Too many books on them to see the shelves!

When I run brush through the chipper I think of how many thousands of dollars worth of twig pencils, birdhouses and furniture I'm making into mulch :(
 
Beautiful stuff, thanks for the link Tom and Roger.
As many of you know my yard is filled with wood that I have been collecting over the years.
Now that I have retired from competitive climbing, I’ve started to focus on my woodworking, mostly turning right now.
I plan on having a booth at the next ISA convention in Portland and making it my big debut as a woodworker.
 
Bring it on, Dan! Lemme know if you'd like to meet Dan Thoreson, and see his shop and him at work. I've not been to it. It's in Edmonds.......

Do you know Bill Luce? He's well known and his bowls command huge $....You may know James, his brother, an arborist in B'ham.....
 
Oops. I thought liveedge was who got the sequoia, but I see they're in Duncan, BC. Coincidentally, I attended school there for a semester, back when I was 15, and we had just moved from Arkansas, of all places.

Eric of slabart couldn't handle the sequoia, and had an outfit from Whidby Island get it. They had to pay the log trucker $1400 for his time and ferry fare for the two loads. I helped him with the 2nd load and got no compensation.....oh well, that often happens, it seems.
 
Jim's and my Dad did some woodworking. Later in life he became a pretty good turner. Many of his pieces were donated to ISA and Chapter auctions.

Here's a collage...the background pic is Dad's Grandparent's homestead farm. They emigrated from Sweden around 1860 and cleared the land to make the farm. Inside the walls of the modernized house is lumber from the white pines they cut down. Various family and Dad pics too. Dad built the car that I'm sitting in next to my Sis and Duchess, the German Shorhair. When Jim was learning to walk he would grab Duchess' ear, poke his thumb, two digits deep into her eye, and get hauled to his feet. Then Duchess the WonderDog would grimace and slowly pull away. That left Jim tottering on his legs. At first he fell on his dupa! Pretty soon he was tottering, then walking!
 

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Here is a few of my pieces that I have decided to keep/ not sell. Lot's of blood and sweat - removal of trees, milling, and furniture processing. Very rewarding however. Enjoy!
 

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