Found wood

[Larry Rose]

I never throw any wood out until I can no longer get into the shop. Recently I've had to clean up "a little" and ran across 2 pieces of undressed 2X4s that I had salvaged from a packing crate. I ran one piece thru the planner out of courisioty and saw it was spalted QS sycamore (I think). After resawing I came up with enough to build this little table. The bottom is walnut from the scrap bin and its finished with Minwax Antique Oil and wax. Somes times it pays to be a pack rat.

 

[Rocker]

Larry,
Nice find!! Your design looks great. Did you darken the qs sycamore?

 

[ChrisMathes]

Wow...that is really pretty...the wood and the table. Both compliment each other well!!! Very nice job!

 

[Larry Rose]

John, I just used oil on it.

 

[MikeH]

From Scrap? WOW. That looks awesome Larry.:eusa_clap

 

[PeteM]

Great table. I really like the way you did the legs. Do you have a plan for it or did you just wing it?

pete

 

[nelsone]

That was some packing crate! Beautiful wood and a very nice piece!

 

[jeff...]

I think your suspicions are correct, that indeed looks like American Sycamore to me. really nice looking hall table.

 

[Larry Rose]

Pete, The legs are loosely based on plans in Wood mag. sometime back. I altered them a bit to fit the size of the stock I had.

 

[sapwood]

Apparently it pays to be a pack rat and a craftsman :icon_thum
An impressive piece of woodwork by any standard!

Roger

 

[erasmussen]

Very nice, some good scrape, and good work:icon_thum

 

[lottathought]

I want scrap wood like that.
very nice

 

[DaveO]

Larry you're not allowed to post any more pictures :-D . I thought that I could make nice things out of wood. But after seeing the things you make, even out of scrap pallet wood, I've come to the conclusion that I pretty much suck (and not in a good new tool way)
So please spare what is left of my ego and keep your beautiful works of art to yourself :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I am just kidding, of course, you are an inspiration, and I hope to be as good as you one day.

Dave

 

[dozer]

Great looking table that is some pretty awesome scrap.

 

[TV]

Wow, scrap lumber! I need someone to drop some scrap lumber like that in my garage.

tv

 

[Dusty Sawyer]

If I produced work like that once in a while my wife might actually put up with the stuff I'd like to collect.

 

[cpowell]

Well, I have never found any pallet wood so nice as that.

Nice wood, very nice workmanship, as usual. I like it.

Chuck

 

[jeff...]

I'm really starting to wonder if I shouldn't spalt some sycamore logs, due to the extermly high MC of green sycamore, 150% by weight, sycamore it's a supper easy spalter. Actually a bit to easy, after researching it I found that most lumber companies will only saw sycamore (and other white wood) in the winter months, because left green in the right conditions it's prone to mold stain (spalting). But it seems folks really like the multidimensional QS grain and fungus trails left by our spalting organism friends. So I'm really considering a late summer early fall, spalted sycamore lumber run. Only on problem with spalting, it's pretty rough on the guy sawing the logs.