Reclaimed Pine Bed/Shelves

[Mash Jones]

I picked up some 'barn wood' from a turn of the century barn near Chas. SC. I've attached a picture of how it looked when I brought it home. My wife's thoughts were the monkey grass below the wood was worth more than the wood. Anyway, I took inspiration from the Taunton bed book, the shaker bed, with some modifications. Primary wood is the reclaimed pine, secondary wood poplar. Finish is Watco danish oil and wax. Also, with some of the 'less desirable' barn wood that I picked up I outfitted a closet with some shelves. Inspiration and hardware came from John Louise Homes.

[frank shic]

looks beautiful mash! good job recycling that wood ;)

[Von Bickley]

Mash,
Great looking wood and a great looking bed......... I imagine that old pine had some tight growth rings. :)

[Ted Calver]

Mash,
You sure did a great job turning barn wood into treasure!!

[John Keeton]

Excellent work, and I love the warm look of that old pine. Your design is very well done, and neat use of "leftovers" in the closet.

Query - how did you get around the 5 pic limit on a post?? Has that been changed?

[Zach England]

I wish I could find wood like that.

[Neal Clayton]

look at how many rings are in your vertical grained pieces..

too bad we can't get lumber that good anymore :(

[Mash Jones]

John,

Not sure how I overcame the attatchment limit. It did stop me at the amount I put in though...so maybe they up'd the limit.

Zack,

With the recession we see more barn wood available on craigslist. Often though, it is in large lots that a home owner/hobbyist would not be interested. I was lucky in this case though......let me paint the picture.....I arrived in my 1990, 300,000 mile corrolla with the towing package, hauling the cut off rear end of a 1970 ford courier with a 12 pack in hand. The seller and I hit it off, awing over some of the wood specimens and enjoying a couple of beverages. After a couple of hours of dismantling, and watching his kids I gave him what we thought was fair and parted ways. Hope to get more soon.

[Jason Strauss]

Zack,

With the recession we see more barn wood available on craigslist. Often though, it is in large lots that a home owner/hobbyist would not be interested. I was lucky in this case though......let me paint the picture.....I arrived in my 1990, 300,000 mile corrolla with the towing package, hauling the cut off rear end of a 1970 ford courier with a 12 pack in hand. The seller and I hit it off, awing over some of the wood specimens and enjoying a couple of beverages. After a couple of hours of dismantling, and watching his kids I gave him what we thought was fair and parted ways. Hope to get more soon.

This has got to be one of the funniest things I've read in a long time! True Southern Charm! ...and the bed is real nice, too!

[Jeff Wittrock]

Very nice work! I love the simple lines of the bed, and the nice straight grained pine goes well with it. I think the butterfly in the headboard was a nice touch. I didn't even notice it until I looked a second time.

-Jeff

[Brad Wood]

wow, is it normal for old growth pine to have that sort of color?

[John Keeton]

wow, is it normal for old growth pine to have that sort of color?I should probably let Mash respond, but yes it is.

That along with the beautiful grain, is what makes it such a find. It actually machines so much better than new growth stuff - all round a joy to work with.

[Mash Jones]

Thanks for the kind words all.

Tommorrow after work I'll take a picture of end grain of some of the left over material that I took the legs from. I counted > 25 rings per inch in the 4x6 that i took the legs from.

John, you'd know about the color better than I, as this is my first time with old growth heart pine. It is gummy stuff though. Ran through plenty of sand paper on this one.

On the headboard there is actually a small crack propagated by a nail hole. My take was this gives the piece more character, but I did not want to ignore it and have it look like a flaw that was missed in the execution.
Thus my first butterfly on the head board. A subtle one though, with the same material that the legs are made out of.

As far as the southern charm goes, my arrival in all my 'style' has been known to provide some serious comedic relief, but it also means my daughter and son typically cruise with mom.

[Brad Wood]

John, you'd know about the color better than I, as this is my first time with old growth heart pineJohn, I think he just called you old :)

[John Thompson]

A little late for the party, Mash. My computer got taken down with lightning early Mon. with our weather which you are familar with up the road there.

Very nice build there.. I'm guessing you used Watco Cherry Oil to get the color?. The bed looks great and I grade it 99%.. the 1% is that showing bolt head on the foot-board. Is there a reason you didn't plug it?

Again excellent build and a great use of that barn-wood....

Regards from down the road a piece....

[Neal Clayton]

Thanks for the kind words all.

Tommorrow after work I'll take a picture of end grain of some of the left over material that I took the legs from. I counted > 25 rings per inch in the 4x6 that i took the legs from.

John, you'd know about the color better than I, as this is my first time with old growth heart pine. It is gummy stuff though. Ran through plenty of sand paper on this one.

On the headboard there is actually a small crack propagated by a nail hole. My take was this gives the piece more character, but I did not want to ignore it and have it look like a flaw that was missed in the execution.
Thus my first butterfly on the head board. A subtle one though, with the same material that the legs are made out of.

As far as the southern charm goes, my arrival in all my 'style' has been known to provide some serious comedic relief, but it also means my daughter and son typically cruise with mom.

yeah, the sap never really comes out entirely. i actually find that sanding it less makes it smoother, at least on greener stuff, since the sapwood is abnormally soft, and the rings abnormally hard. a quick pass with 80, and another with 180-220, should do it, anything more can actually cause it to move with the heat from sanding and make it worse than it started from.

the highest i've seen was 125ish rings per inch from an old beam taken from a warehouse in new orleans that my stepbrother's employer did some work on, that was built in the mid 1850s. they struggled to cut it with a persistently oiled chainsaw...

[John Keeton]

John, I think he just called you old :)And, there are days Brad, where it would seem he made a good call!!;)

[Jerry Olexa]

good job!! Its always more satisfying when you use reclaimed lumber..good work