Category Archives: oldWood

The Doors

I’ve been working on the doors, off and on,  for forever. Back in 2012, when we’d moved to the green house and I didn’t have a place to putter, I put up a bench in the barn and spent half … Continue reading

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The Master Bedroom Floor

Before the beams came out of the green house, we took out the floor they held up, and the floorboards went into a pile in Chuck, where they were in the way all summer long. These boards came out of … Continue reading

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The doors. Part I

There are barns and there are barn doors.  And then there are doors made from barns. In Westford, I remember making the first set of downstairs doors on the day the carpet installer was there. I made them out of … Continue reading

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Save the Beams part III

If you read Save the Beams or Save the Beams part II, you know we’re reclaiming a bunch of the wood from the Green house for use in the new one. Normal wood lovers just go to the reclaimed wood … Continue reading

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Using old wood

When I started out working wood, I used only ‘perfect’ boards. Straight grain, knot free, smooth-planed wood. Nice stuff. The first time I stepped ‘out of the box,’ I needed a board to enclose the lights above the kitchen sink in Westford … Continue reading

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