Thread: Home made gifts

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Thanks, I find wood more forgiving than metal, and a lot easier to shape and lift! That being said I've learned alot about metal from folks here at this site. I know what you mean about barn wood. Here it's hit or miss. If someone's tearing down an old building, chances are the prices are cheap if you arrive at the right time. We now have a wood reclaimer buisness in town, who makes big bucks selling similar finds! On the quilted maple planks I want to say I have 7-8 planks that are 3/4 or 4/4" thick, 12"-18" inches wide and around 7-8' long. the wood worker selling it had no where to store it at the time. Now days one of those planks would cost what I paid for the whole lot.

Here's an old sideboard buffet that my wife and I fixed up. It really needed taken apart and some wood replaced, but seeing as how we have 3 young kids, I talked her into just refinishing it and making it nice enough. She is into the old farm house type look and likes using chalk paint and such. I like wood that is stained or finished nicely. I have to bite my lip and let her do her thing since she looks at it more than I do.

She also did this old chest. Some one made a rabbit hutch out of it. She stripped it down, removed the nasty wall paper from the inside, and lined the inside of it to give as a gift, wasn't happy with it, and we still have it. Haha