Butcher Block top table made with recycled materials. The legs are elm recovered from a barn beam. The cherry was salvaged from a staircase in an old victorian and the maple is from a floor in a turn of the century farm house.
I have no large tools and all work is done with hand planes, hand saws, chisels and alot of sweat.
Viewer Comments:
wow, all done with hand tools and very beautiful. I am impressed with this future heirloom.
Thanks,
I tend to think of myself as a traditionalist.I love the curl of wood when using a well tuned plane, cutting strike lines with chisels for dovetails and watchiing "junk" wood materialize in front of me into something appealing and functional.
Sorry to be the harsh critic, but "future heirloom?" I doubt it. Doing things without power tools is quiet and satisfying, and to be commended. Looks like your tools skills are quite good. That, however does not give you license to break all the rules of construction as they pertain to wood movent. Your top will come apart, and your shelf will most likely open the joints on the aprons too. Hey, but at least your drawer bottom is going the proper direction. As a self proclaimed traditionalist, you should know these things, and if you forgot, better dust off that Hoadly book on the shelf.
The top has been like it is for seven years in my basement, in my shop and various other places, just like it is! Raw and unfinished, w/ no seal. Still waiting for it to blow apart. Bottom shelf is loose sitting in dadoes. R. Bruce Hoadley should be respected for his views and I have two of his books on the shelf, but and I emphasize but, rules were meant to be broken. I'll post the top in five years to prove a point.
