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  • Anyone here ever work with live edge slabs? I picked up a black walnut slab back in September to build a basement bar and finally have it finished for the most part. I still have to put shelving in, install a foot rest, and buy stools, but the time consuming parts are done. I used rough cut lumber for the base siding and stained it gray going for an aged barnwood look. Overall i'm very happy with how it turned out.

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2 minutes ago, BowmanMike said:

Beautiful. I used some big 2" slabs of ash from my property for my laundry room countertop. It turned out pretty nice,I still have another one or two for future projects.

Thank you. This one is 2 3/4" and is the first slab i've ever worked with. I would like to make a coffee table next.

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GREAT job!

I have recently built tables for my Maine Cabin.  Here at home, I built all the doors in my home, and a hickory bar top for an interior rock wall.  I am far from a carpenter for daily work, but very very happy.  All the wood was cut from my home property.  I have a ton of pics! Some pics are not directly focused on the table top, bar top, or door though.  All of the little end tables, and coffee tables are up in Maine, the doors, and hickory wall top is here at home in NY.

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1 hour ago, Bionic said:

GREAT job!

I have recently built tables for my Maine Cabin.  Here at home, I built all the doors in my home, and a hickory bar top for an interior rock wall.  I am far from a carpenter for daily work, but very very happy.  All the wood was cut from my home property.  I have a ton of pics! Some pics are not directly focused on the table top, bar top, or door though.  All of the little end tables, and coffee tables are up in Maine, the doors, and hickory wall top is here at home in NY.

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Beautiful. What finish are you using?

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2 hours ago, Hank said:

Beautiful. What finish are you using?

Thank you.  I have been using Minwax Polycrylic in Satin.  I have used this on all the walls, ceilings, kitchen beams, and posts, end tables, wall top, doors, etc.  it does not yellow with age, and is durable.  

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I like that natural finish wood look.  My dad does a lot of woodworking and his favorite is red oak.  I like cherry a lot and black walnut is right up there.  
 

Hands down my favorite, as well as my father in law, and his neighbor, is American chestnut, but that’s hard to come by these days since it mostly died out in the previous century.  
 

I dismantled a couple of my great great grandads timber-framed 1880’s barns that were mostly constructed from it (it was the dominant species in the local woods back then).  Those old barns had fallen into a state of disrepair and saving them would have cost much more than building a new one from modern materials.  
 

I’ve taken quite a bit of that old wood up to my father in law and his neighbor up in the Adirondacks.  I’ve also used a bunch of it inside and outside of the new pole barn that I put up a few years ago.  The chestnut has a unique color when finished:

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The last of great great grandads old barns before I pulled it down:

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If he wouldn’t have built them on such low ground with poor drainage (the foundations and roofs were failing simultaneously), I might have been able to save them. 
 

 

Loft with shops below made inside the new metal pole barn with chestnut hand-hewn posts, beams and boards from the old barns:

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Lean-to woodshed on back of new metal pole barn made from mostly chestnut “parts” of old barns.  When they shipped the Stockade metal building from Ohio in a semi trailer, each bundle of grey steel was protected by a same-gage piece of green metal.  I used those green sheets for the roof of the lean-to, so the materiel was all free for me. 

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I also used some of the old weathered chestnut siding for walls around my deer blinds:

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When we had our basement finished I asked the contractor if he could make bannisters from a beautiful piece of rough cut live edge cherry I had gotten from our neighbor who passed away at 97.5. His name was Bob Fogelsonger, he owned Mosher Lumber and milled wood from his farm in Elma. His daughter let me take some wood from his basement when we cleaned out his house. I thought it would be cool to use it for something lasting. I wish I had a pic of the slab, it was around 8'x 13" x 3.5". I was thrilled with the result

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